Transcription: Poor Neanderthal man, oh he had a pretty rough time of it. He was discovered in 1856 by chance in the Neander Valley in Germany and from there everything took off. What took off? The interpretations. For some he was a Cossack who took a wrong turn while chasing Napoleon and came here to die by chance. For others they were the bones of a congenital idiot stricken with rickets. It was only after Darwin's theories were released that it was decided to consider him as a prehistoric ancestor. Since then, several other specimens have been found throughout Europe. Today we don't think of him as one of ...
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