We've all seen the cartoon — the dim, hunched caveman, the evolutionary runner-up.
It's one of the most persistent myths in all of science, and it's completely wrong. The real Neanderthal was something closer to a superhuman.
In this episode we get into the astonishing biology of our closest extinct relative: bones sometimes twice as dense as ours, a build strong enough to wrestle prey to the ground, lungs up to 40% larger, a brain bigger than a modern human's, and eyes built for the dark. These were people engineered for an Ice Age world that would have destroyed us — and they carried that world on their backs for hundreds of thousands of years. Oh, and if you're of European or Asian descent, a piece of them is still inside you right now.
Let me show you just how extraordinary the Neanderthals really were.
The birth of modern Man
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