Episode 177 - Neanderthals

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Education, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

These days, we Homo sapiens are the only humans around, but that wasn’t always the case. This episode, we are joined by special guest Dr. Bridget Alex to discuss our most famous extinct cousins, Neanderthals. We explore what makes them similar and dissimilar to us, what evidence we use to study their lives and culture, and how our understanding of them has grown from outdated misrepresentations to the complex and fascinating people we now know them to have been. In the news: a fossil bat skull, beaver evolution, early pliosaurs, and Ancient Egyptian snakes Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:25Main discussion, Part 1: 00:41:00Main discussion, Part 2: 01:38:35Patron question: 02:30:35 Find Dr. Alex on her website: bridgetalex.comOr follow her on Twitter: @bannelia Check out our website for this episode’s blog post and more:http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here:https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ We’re an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome.More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.1	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.1	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Common Descent, a podcast about paleontology, evolution,
0:26.0	life history, and so on.
0:27.5	This is episode 177, and our topic, this episode is Neanderthals.
0:33.8	Which is very exciting.
0:34.9	Very exciting.
0:35.7	It has human evolution topics, ancient hominins, things in this category come up a lot in the news on the podcast, but it has been a very long time since we've dedicated an episode to ancient hominins or any primates.
0:50.0	Yes.
0:50.6	Period. We will be discussing who Neanderthals are slash were what we know about them,
0:57.4	what we understand about their culture, their lifestyles, their relationship to our own lineage homo sapiens.
1:05.6	It's going to be a whole bunch of fun.
1:06.7	And we will be joined by a special guest, Dr. Bridget Alex, paleoanthropologist, Harvard lecturer, and Neanderthal enthusiast who we had a great time chatting with and learning from.
1:20.4	It's great.
1:21.7	This is a really exciting and fun topic for us to get to talk about.
1:24.5	It was so fascinating to get to learn all sorts of stuff about Neanderthals.
1:31.4	Yes, so you will hear that once the main discussion of the episode starts.
1:35.6	Hey, one of the reasons why we're doing this episode topic is because like all of our episode
1:39.4	topics, it was requested.
1:40.7	We received several requests for either Neanderthals specifically or more hominins in other human species.
1:48.7	More peoples.
1:49.1	From Pedro, Eric, Alexander, Taterboy, Jeremy, Rita, and Lucky Tomato.
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