CANBERRA£¬ March 9 (Xinhua) -- Neanderthals have been revealed to have had varied and sometimes vegetarian diets£¬ while some also used plant-based medicines to treat illnesses£¬ according to Australian-led research on Thursday.

Often thought of by many as simple "cave men" with only weak links to modern humans£¬ Laura Weyrich from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA has said analysis of Neanderthal dental plaque has revealed a varied and "modern-looking" vegetarian diet.

"It's a very£¬ very different picture from the grunting£¬ club-toting Neanderthal that we like to think about£¬" Weyrich told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Thursday.

"They were probably very intelligent£¬ communicative and very in tune with what was going on around them."

Weyrich revealed that some families of Neanderthal£¬ such as the El Sidron group from modern Spain£¬ ate a diet comprised mostly of plants and vegetables available in the forest.

She said there was evidence of pine nuts£¬ mushrooms£¬ grass and moss in the plaque analysis from the El Sidron Neanderthals.

"So that's the true palaeo diet£¬" Weyrich said. "That's what people would have been eating in palaeolithic times if they lived in a forest like the El Sidron Neanderthal did."

In addition£¬ Weyrich said the research uncovered evidence that Neanderthals used specific plants to try and treat a variety of illnesses£¬ including using poplar bark - which happens to contain an active ingredient in Penicillium and aspirin - to counter the effects of gastrointestinal issues such as diarrhoea.

"So it is likely he would have been trying to self-medicate£¬" Weyrich said.

A subway car in Beijing is full of passengers. (Photo: Beijing Morning Post)

Beijing is planning to invest another 400 billion yuan ($64.4 billion) in the expansion of its subway system Cheap Nike Vapormax 2018 Women's Purple , with tracks expected to reach 1,000 kilometers by 2020, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

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Beijing has been mulling price hikes for bus and subway fares. Local authorities have launched public transportation reform, soliciting public comments on the price hikes.

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BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's Chang'e-3, which includes its first lunar rover named Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, has successfully soft landed on the Moon Saturday Cheap Men's Nike VaporMax Laceless Black Night Black Grey , fulfilling the long-awaited dream of moon landing of the Chinese nation.

Since the successful launching of Chang'e-3 mission early December, the Chang'e-3 lunar exploration program has been put in the spotlight. Now as Jade Rabbit has made its touchdown on the moon surface, the whole world again marvels at China's remarkable space capabilities and even extends their aspiration for space cooperation with China.

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"We in the U.S., in the West Cheap Nike Vapormax Flyknit Be True Royal Blue , tend to focus on the widget aspect of China's space progress," Cheng said. "But I would say what we sometimes miss is the Chinese space efforts aimed at improving their systems engineering."

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"The Chang'e-3 details tell me that the U.S. now absolutely must start communicating with the Chinese about lunar cooperation," said U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11, in an interview with the magazine Aerospace America. "The U.S. knows more about the Moon than anyone else, and we know more about bringing together foreign partners, as we did for the International Space Station Cheap Men's Nike Vapormax Flyknit Black Rainbow ," he added.

The lander spacecraft is more than 40 percent the size of a NASA Apollo lunar module at descent stage, and the Chinese are building them on an assembly line basis, the magazine reported.

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