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They found that the skull bases of the Chiari skulls closely matched those of Homo neanderthalensis while the bases of the control group more closely resembled those of modern humans.

Neanderthal genes may explain why some people have Chiari malformation type I, a condition in which the brain bulges out of the back of the skull.

Interestingly, the tilted backwards positioning of the foramen magnum (where the spine enters the skull) was most similar to Kabwe I, a Homo rhodensiensis specimen.