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Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes: Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.
         

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.


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