re: #87 SanFranciscoZionist

At an exhibit at the San Francisco Academy of Sciences some years ago, they took one of the life-size Neanderthal models and, rather than putting him in the diorama, put him in street clothes and a baseball cap, and stood him next to the door.

Your eye could easily skip over him, unless you looked hard he just looked like another museum-goer.

There’s some suggestion that the “caveman” image was created because the first few Neanderthal finds were atypical individuals. There aren’t all that many, and their average brain case runs a hundred cc’s or so larger than ours. You had to be smart to prosper in a dirk-tooth rich environment.

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