Ludovic Slimak, paleoanthropologist: We've killed Neanderthals for the second time by not wanting to understand them'
Briefly

To understand this meeting between two [versions of] humans, we must find the right words to express what the Neanderthal is... There are two schools of thought: one that considers the Neanderthals to be an inferior humanity, as well as another that almost as a reaction says that this is a racist view, that the Neanderthals were the same as us.
I've spent 35 years working in caves. I've had direct contact with the objects [that the Neanderthals] made, with their way of life and their weapons... We've confused the methods with the subject of study, which is the human being.
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