Neanderthal males had unusually strong upper arms, just like Popeye, particularly on the right side, revealed a research.
Remains of an early Neanderthal with a super strong arm suggest that Neanderthal fellows were heavily pumped up on male hormones, possessing a hormonal status unlike anything that exists in humans today, the study suggested.
Researchers said that Neanderthal males probably evolved their ultra macho ways due to lifestyle, genes, climate and diet factors.
Project leader Maria Mednikova claimed that Neanderthal males hunted in the “extreme,” helping to beef up one arm.
“The common method for killing animals was direct contact with the victim,” Discovery News quoted Mednikova, a professor in the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, as saying.
Neanderthal males did not shoot prey, such as mammoths, with a bow and arrow from a distance.
Instead, they would engage in face-to-face contact, jabbing long, thick spears directly into the animal’s flesh.
In fact, Neanderthal females weren’t delicate creatures either.