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Not all 'cavemen' were men! What we can learn from 'sheanderthals'
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Neanderthals are our closest relatives, and Rebecca Wragg Sykes says it’s time we better understood the sophisticated lives they led. The archaeologist joins host Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss why we need to especially imagine what it was like to live as a “she-anderthal” in order to truly understand our cousin species - and better understand ourselves, too.