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Neanderthals (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

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The Evolution of Art

If we'd known from the beginning... Yeah, would the myth have developed like that? Exactly. Maybe they were an extraordinarily cuddly people. And they had art. Often that's a definition of humanity. It's to create, to be expressive, to make things that are not functional. They had art, we believe? Or is that still a challenging area? I don't really like the word art. All cultures have decorated themselves. But it's unlikely that they didn't decorate themselves. So art, no- but expressive aesthetics, maybe yes? Well, yeah,. and the Brunerkel Cave, it's very, very bizarre. The idea of them is... That

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