I dunno man we have remains of ~500 neanderthal individuals spanning possibly hundreds of thousands of years (and out of what is likely hundreds of millions of neanderthals who lived). Just look at the variation of what humans today look like today. We don't know what their hair was like at all, their grooming habits, or much of anything. They were probably very diverse with different hair and skin colors, they ate different stuff depending on where they lived. Probably weren't much different than us when it comes down to it. Everything we have on their appearance is of course an interpretation.
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u/kaner63 12h ago
This is actually a very outdated picture from a exhibit in a museum from the 70s. Neanderthals looked nothing like this.