Anthropologist Fact Checks Stone Age Slop

This is not a 60,000-year-old human.

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It's just a chimpanzee with sort of a nice hairdo.

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I'm an anthropologist and I study human evolution.

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Okay, let's watch this first video.

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if you were raised by Neanderthals?

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What would happen if you were raised by Neanderthals

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and you were a see-through glass skeleton?

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[Narrator 1] Age one, you survived the brutal winter.

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Their high-calorie diet of raw marrow and fat.

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would've been cared for by Neanderthals, probably,

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you're chomping down with a fully adult teeth.

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you're already as strong as a modern-day adult.

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[Narrator 1] You learn to make fire or you freeze.

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At five, you learn to make fire or you freeze.

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with the whole group in the cave making fires?

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[Narrator 1] Neanderthals don't use bows,

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And we don't have any evidence that Neanderthals used them.

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But Neanderthals did throw spears, that's for sure.

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[Narrator 1] You are a biological tank.

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Your bones are 30% thicker than a modern human.

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Second of all, Neanderthals vary themselves as well.

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scientists find your frozen remains.

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Okay, let's talk about this for a minute.

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Are we gonna find some ancestor perfectly frozen in ice?

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or sort of be desiccated and sort of…

Original source: https://www.wired.com/