Jawab Soal Materi Bahasa Inggris Kelas XI, Bab V Activity 17 Text 1

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11. Belonged = Milik

12. Extinct = Punah

What is Neanderthal Man? The term refers to a hominid who [1] walked on the Earth in the Middle Paleolithic Age (during the Old Stone Age).

The term hominid refers to an upright-walking primate that is an [2] extinct ancestor to man.

A hominid can be an ancestor of "true" man (modern man) or a relative, such as a modern primate.

In this context, the term man is used to refer to both males and [3] females of the genus Homo.

Neanderthal Man was [4] discovered near Düsseldorf, Germany in 1856, when workers came across the skull and skeletal remains of what appeared to be a human.

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The finding sparked [5] discussion and controversy about the nature of the being.

There were two arguments: the skull, markedly different from that of nineteenth-century man, was that of a pathologically deformed human being (an individual who was thought to have [6] suffered from severe bone disease or some sort of congenital malformation); or, the skull belonged to an "early" man.

This latter view was [7] supported by the famous English naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) in his book Man's Place in Nature (1863).