What a great ad, the crybaby Neanderthals.
I love it when a fuzzy-headed liberal bio-scientist has some hyper-obscure argument going on in his head and he phrases it as if there is even another person on the planet who remotely gives a sh*t, viz.,
"The question of whether Neandertals, who died out some 35,000 years ago, shared the prolonged childhoods found in modern humans is a controversial one."
ROTFLMAO!
Yes, indeed, many a saloon donnybrook has started over the controversy of whether or not the 'Neandertals' had a prolonged childhood... five year plan in college... living in the basement for a couple of years after they graduate... mom and dad helping out with the car payments...
It is a veritable tinder-box of controversy waiting to burst into flame.
Plus, the 'experts' or 'scientists' always have to call something by a different name every few years, like "Neandertals", not "Neanderthals," as they prefer to be addressed.
Just so we all know that THEY are the experts in useless crap that nobody cares about.
Only, the "th" sound was eliminated from the german language generations ago - so it is pronounced "tal", and always has been. the "th" spelling was a throwback to middle german.
So the word has not changed - the spelling is just catching up with the pronunciation.
My anthropology professor, in the early 70's, insisted we use Neandertal.