Irving Finkel

They're gone forever and ever and ever, unless something amazing happens.

So we've got the one representative of this bizarre family.

It's a very stimulating thing to imagine.

I personally believe that Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens for sure

had language.

For sure, they talked to one another.

It's impossible that they didn't.

The point came when they did.

They did.

And the Neanderthals, 100,000 years of rule, live in Europe.

They had to deal with the ice age.

They all live together.

They bring up their children.

They couldn't speak anything.

They have the same apparatus.

And if you have a human brain, then it responds to stimulus.

And the more stimulus there is for communication.

I mean, the idea that you and I are out hunting rhino and you say,

lex shut up i'm constantly lex lex and i suddenly think oh i get it you are lex right you only have to do that once then you know who i am so i know that i'm me and that you are you so people who say that they couldn't distinguish ego and all that it's absolutely stupid if you cut your hand with a knife you sure as hell experiencing

You sure as hell do.