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What podcasts say about Neanderthals
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What experts have said about Neanderthals
4 statements · 3 positive · 1 mixed
Neanderthals cultivated and used wild plants medicinally, including as painkillers.
“We see Neanderthals doing that a long, long time ago, like cultivating wild plants and using them as painkillers and stuff like that.”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 2:20:38
Neanderthal modern-human ancestry may indicate deeper cultural or biological modernity than expected.
“5% is actually a sign of something much more impactful, that is that somehow Neanderthals are in some sense deeply modern in some ways.”
Open the episode · David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolutionListen at 1:19:55
Neanderthals may be culturally closer cousins of modern humans than genome-wide relationships suggest.
“the actual correct way to think about them may be in an important sense somehow the relations or the close cousins of modern humans.”
Open the episode · David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolutionListen at 1:33:15
Neanderthals likely had spoken language.
“I think Neanderthals had spoken language.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 9:18
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