The researchers found that both Neanderthals and modern humans selectively collected a specific type of marine seashell that had virtually no value as food and had previously been associated exclusively with modern humans. This shared preference for a nonutilitarian, potentially symbolic object suggests that cultural exchange occurred across the biological divide, transcending species barriers.
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