Neanderthals: Evidence for Evolution or Just Human? (Classroom Series)
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Natural History Museums and school textbooks display line-ups of ape-to-human icons that supposedly show how humans evolved from ape-like creatures millions of years ago. The last step in this line up are Neanderthals, holding the “40,000 to 400,000 years ago” time slot. Just decades ago, Neanderthals were regarded in museums and textbooks as gorilla-like cavemen. This is because their fossils were viewed through an evolutionary lens, being framed as some type of “last step” between ape-like creatures and humans. But today we’ve learned that Neanderthals fit into history exactly as the Bible describes: post Flood humans who dispersed from the Tower of Babel and lived during the Ice Age.
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- So, here's what they were doing in 1909. Those hats are fire. Up here please. Yes, the picture from 1909
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- I was trying to show is this one. For years, scientists have portrayed
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- Neanderthals as gorilla -like cavemen, kind of like a last step between ape -like creatures and humans.
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- But nowadays, they probably looked more like this. Hey, cute man -do. Why are they still being used as evidence for ape -like creatures turning into humans?
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- I mean, they seem much more advanced than many ancient people groups. Don't we all know somebody with those well -defined deep eyebrows?
- 00:35
- Right? I mean, they also had jewelry. They had musical instruments, weaponry, medicine, artwork.
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- Scientists are still trying to replicate a type of glue they used for their weaponry. I even heard that the Neanderthals lived with, had families with, and were buried with modern humans.
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- So, to me, that settles it. I think they're just humans. It sure does.