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C'mon, with a headline like this Grunt work: Scientists make Neanderthals speak again how could I not blog about it?

Even so, experts question whether Neanderthals had the necessary biological gear, such as fine nerves connected to tongue muscles and lips, that would enable them do more than just grunt.

Their vocal tracts lacked the ability to make "quantal vowels" that underpin modern speech, and so oral communication would have been limited, McCarthy believes.

I am not sure I can make "quantal vowels" even now.