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The Only True Human Equality Is That We All Descended From Murderers And Cannibals

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May 14, 2026
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Approximately 430,000 years ago, someone inflicted two blows to the head of a Neanderthal. Either blow would have killed him. “Cranium 17 recovered from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site shows two clear perimortem depression fractures on the frontal bone, interpreted as being produced by two episodes of localized blunt force trauma”, reads …

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