Neil deGrasse Tyson

So if this was 19th century anthropology, racist anthropology, they say, oh, those are probably the black people because they're still dumb and stupid.

They've been on the client hunt.

Yeah.

What happened to them?

It's a mystery.

Mystery to me, I think even to the insect people.

Turns out Europeans on average are between 1% and 3% Neanderthal DNA.

Insect population has been waning.

You know what I didn't know, Doc?

It's not always good.

Because some insects pollinate flowers, you know.

African blacks, near zero.

Yeah, I want the bees.

Bees got a stake.

That's kind of hard to, you got to settle that score if you're one of these anthropologists.

Insects got their, do their business.

But, you know, even ants, like you said, ants, you know, they eat dead things and they help clean up because, you know, I used to think about like, man, why buzzards, vultures, we call them buzzards.

Beginning in the 1990s, anthropological studies of Neanderthal started describing how inventive and creative they were.

I don't know if they're the same thing.

I was like, man, why we need those?