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1.53s(GRUNTING)
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3.79s(SIGHS) Why you stare at prehistoric pig butt?
5.07sBecause it makes me feel happy and confused and wistful and sad.
3.07sAll Neanderthal sad. It in our nature.
1.3sWhy?
4.39sIt all start 30,000 year ago, in fertile Neander Valley.
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5.02sLife for our ancestors peaceful, until Homo sapiens arrive.
3.95sWe suggest interbreed, become one big happy species.
2.9sBut they treat us like second-class hominid.
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1.63sThey drive us from valley,
3.4sand we end up living here, in isolated crevice.
1.83sWe figure, "whatever."
3.34sBut then we get trapped by encroaching ice age.
4.37sNow we sealed in under sky of ice.