National Geographic Kids - Neanderthal

 This project for school was fun. We had to illustrate an article for National Geographic of National Geographic Kids. I decided to do one for the Kids magazine. Instead of using filler I researched the latest discoveries about Neanderthals to create a real article.

A long time ago I took an anthropology course, and I have never forgotten learning that Neanderthals had larger brains than Homo Sapiens.

I was thinking of the character Eep from The Croods when I decided to give her red hair. Some Neanderthals did have red hair, though it was not the most common color, so far as we know.



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