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Neanderthal Cannibalism Is Still With Us

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July 9, 2016

According to a study from the University of Tübingen in Germany, an analysis of 99 new Neanderthal remains from a cavern in Belgium that date back roughly 40,000 to 45,000 years “provide unambiguous evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism in Northern Europe.” Neanderthals skinned one another, sliced into their bones, and even extracted bone marrow.

I don’t want to be accused of being politically incorrect against some of current humanity’s antecedents, but to judge from recent events in the U.S. from Louisiana to Minnesota to Dallas, high caliber Neanderthal cannibalism on the streets of our cities stills survives today—except that we derive no nutritional benefits.

Of course, those with Neanderthal axes to grind are still looking for scapegoats. Students for Justice in Palestine has linked the police shooting of a black man in Louisiana to the real or imagined sins of the IDF, concluding that “The same forces behind the genocide of black people in America are behind the genocide of the palestinians.” They equate Alton Sterling, killed in Baton Rouge, with Ali Dawabsheh, the Palestinian child killed in the West Bank.

The world we live in does not leave a good taste.

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