Are You Part Neanderthal? The Other Humans #1

Neanderthals had painkillers, cooked flatbread, hunted elephants twice the size of today's, and looked after their sick. So why do we still call them cavemen? In The Other Humans #1, Professor Dodo hands the mic to Professor Neander (Neanderthal, retired) to tell the true story of his people. We follow Oda's family through the real evidence: what they ate, how they hunted, how they cared for each other, what happened when they met us, and why they disappeared about 40,000 years ago. Plus a test. It involves your alarm clock. Oda and her family are made up. Everything they do comes from real evidence. 0:00 A Neanderthal toothache 0:33 Meet Professor Neander 1:29 Meet the Neanderthals 2:45 What's for dinner? 5:02 Hunting giant elephants 6:16 Love and care 7:47 When they met us 9:07 Why did they disappear? 10:20 Not completely gone Sources: Tooth plaque, El Sidrón and Spy (Nature, 2017): https://www.nature.com/articles/543163a Burnt flatbread, Shanidar Cave (2022): https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2022/11/... Fat factory, Neumark-Nord (2025): https://press.uni-mainz.de/neandertha... Elephant hunting (2023): https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/... Maggots study (2025): https://popular-archaeology.com/artic... Upright posture, La Chapelle (2019): https://news.uzh.ch/en/articles/2019/... Tina (2024): https://sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Shanidar Cave finds: https://earthsky.org/human-world/new_... Flower burial and bees (2023): https://archaeology.org/news/2023/09/... Denny (Nature, 2018): https://m.phys.org/news/2018-08-neand... Morning-person genes (2023): https://www.sci.news/genetics/neander... Small population: https://www.livescience.com/5570-nean... Inbreeding model (2019): https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/... Last Neanderthals' diversity (2026): https://www.livescience.com/archaeolo...