Here's the top hit for "Neanderthal" on Google News today:
Today's question:
Are there cavemen in heaven? I mean, during the course of evolution, when did they become “human beings” with “souls”?
I won't venture an answer, but you're welcome to invade his comment section....
JOHN HAWKS is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I was trained as a paleoanthropologist, studying human evolution from an integrative perspective. My research focuses on the processes affecting human genetic evolution across the last 6 million years.
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