Paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak breaks down Neanderthals in movies

University of Toulouse paleoanthropologist, Ludovic Slimak breaks down some famous on-screen Neanderthal scenes from movies, including 'The Croods', 'Quest For Fire', and 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'. Order his new book The Naked Neanderthal here: bit.ly/45m1LMF
What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were?
For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural traditions. But does the truth lie somewhere else entirely?
Neanderthal hunter and paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak understands these enigmatic creatures like no one else after studying them for three decades. Taking us on a fascinating archaeological investigation from the Arctic Circle to the deep Mediterranean forests, he traces their steps, deciphering their stories through every single detail they left behind.
In this stunning, bold book, he argues that Neanderthals should be understood on their own terms. They had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence. A remarkable intelligence, for sure, but an intelligence that may have been very different from ours - although it can still teach us much about ourselves.
A thought-provoking detective story, written with wit and verve, The Naked Neanderthal shifts our understanding of deep history - and in the process reveals just how much we have yet to learn.
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[@walkingbassline]

Great! More from Ludovic please.

[@GeneralJigg]

His voice is awesome

[@taraevans1108]

I wish this video had more views and likes! It was incredibly fascinating and made me thing more of how we became the way we are.

[@M-_-O]

It okay if he speaks his native language and we watch subtitles. I didn’t hear a score for Clan of the Cave Bear, please let him watch more clips of that movie and comment. I was especially impressed when I learned from another source that math, and specifically the counting of days, was something more useful to women of those old tribes bc like he mentioned, they need to keep track of the days for reproduction.

[@milkdudz]

i would die for this man

[@jacoblawrence6983]

Really fun video! Thanks for having him come on!

[@TaurusWitch29]

This guy is awesome!!

[@thunderred5263]

Great

[@Velnias8]

Cool guy

[@AntonAdelson]

Personally I'm inclined to believe that our society owes just as much to Bonobo's social structure as to Chimpanzee's. I wish more historical media covered the Bonobo connection and our fascination with sexual interactions and possible historical matriarchy

[@coyotefoxtrot2832]

But we didn't evolve from chimps or bonobos, we share a common ancestor with them. The quirks of chimp or bonobo culture could have arisen after we split

[@MossyMozart]

@AntonAdelson - We do not descend from Bonobos or Chimpanzees. Just like with Gorillas and Orangutans, we evolved on parallel paths, not in lineages. We all had a common ancestor, but that was perhaps 8-ish million years ago.

[@SlashinatorZ]

I hope we get some good movies about neanderthals & how they hunted humans

[@sawanna508]

Neantherthals WERE humans. Infact Europeans have a little bit of neanthertals in them.

[@alexmail123]

Seeing the video: neanderthals still exist??! 🤔😅

[@jadenalmeida8592]

Europeans have some bit of neanderthals in them

[@renacleerican7824]

​@@jadenalmeida8592Not only Europeans, but every human races only not susbsharan africans.
Neanderthals were in the middle east, North Africa, central Asia...

[@AndrewNiccol]

Most of movies are NOT Neanderthals but Homo.

[@thurstonisonlyanickname2779]

"We don't know if the two societies ever met"? NONSENSE -- if the two societies (Neanderthals & Cro-Magnons) never met then how could persons of European descent have c. 3% Neanderthal DNA? Someone needs to explain the birds and the bees to Ludovic Slimak.

[@MossyMozart]

@thurstonisonlyanickname2779 - He was NOT talking about the Neanderthals & Sapiens; he was talking about the Neanderthals & earlier guys somewhere between Erectus and Habilis, who were not that fuzzy! (Erectus even got themselves across the water to Indonesia to eventually father the so-called "Hobbits".) He also said that Neanderthals did not need Sapiens to give them fire because they already had that knowledge. (It was only a film device to get Rae-Dawn Chong into the arms of the Neanderthal man for that genetic sharing you mentioned.)

[@PRKLGaming]

The hairy hominids in the movie are supposed to be Homo erectus