People Have Questions about Cavemen. Steven Churchill Has Answers

What happened to the Neanderthals? Did cavemen have pets? Is the movie "Ice Age" accurate? In an entertaining and informative video, Duke paleoanthropologist Steven E. Churchill answers questions from the internet about early human evolution, hosted by WIRED.

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