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Shouldn't neandertalls have been called neandershorts since they were shorter? (lemmy.world)
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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Neanderthal refers to the German Neander Tal region, where Tal in German means wally. So the literal translation is Neander-Idiot, because they were too stupid to not be killed by hoomans

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