9. Examinations of Neanderthals’
[ Select ]
fossils
bone structure
bone sewing needles
complex tools
hunting skills
hostile climatic conditions
footprints
dangerous animals
has led scientists to conclude that Neanderthals often had to protect themselves from large animals.

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9.  Examinations of Neanderthals’ 
[ Select ]
fossils
bone structure
bone sewing needles
complex tools
hunting skills
hostile climatic conditions
footprints
dangerous animals
 has led scientists to conclude that Neanderthals often had to protect themselves from large animals.

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

The prompt asks us to identify which factor from a list best explains why Neanderthals often needed to protect themselves from large animals.

First, note that the provided data shows an answer of bone structure as the selected option, but the answer_options field is empty, meaning no alternative choices are displayed for comparison. Given that constraint, we can still evaluate why bone structure would be a plausible factor in the stated conclusion.

Reasoning about bone structure: If Neanderthals exhibited robust bone structure in their fossils, this suggests a physically strong and resilient physique. A strong skeletal frame and muscular attachments would help individuals withstand the forces of encounters with large herbivores or predators, enabling better protection and endurance during confrontations or evasive actions. In paleoanthropology, robusticity is often linked to physical demands of a lifestyle that includes hunting large game, defense, or surviving harsh environmental pressures. Therefore, bone structure aligns with the idea that Neanderthals needed to protect themselves from large animals.

About potential alternative options (if they had been listed): 
- Complex tools or hunting skills could also contribute to protection by enabling safer or more effective defense or deterrence, but in the absence of those options in this dataset, bone structure remains a direct, bodily capability linked to physical protection. 
- Footprints might reflect movement and group dynamics rather than direct protection capabilities, and hostile climatic conditions describe environment but not the immediate protective capacity. 
- Fossils indicating dangerous animals or footprints of predation would point to exposure risk rather than intrinsic protective ability.

Given the information provided, the chosen option bone structure is coherent with a conclusion that requires physical robustness as a means of protection against large animals.

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9. Examinations of Neanderthals’ [ Select ] fossils bone structure bone sewing needles complex tools hunting skills hostile climatic conditions footprints dangerous animals has led scientists to conclude that Neanderthals often had to protect themselves from large animals.

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