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Neanderthals (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

CHAPTER

The Stone Age

In 1865, John Lubbock comes up with the idea of a Stone Age. It'd be the first person to propose older than 6,000 years. At the same time they're finding the Neanderthals. The first huge telescopes are kind of going oh so those fuzzy things are other galaxies. And you have Darwin as well in 1859, is it? Exactly. So much of this blows my mind. We, as a species, expect humans to just get super cool with not just 60,000 or 100,000, 200,000 years of hominids but 14 billion years of universe. But maybe that's a bit unfair given those only been about seven generations of humans

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