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the ancestor we blame for every bad instinct and none of the good ones.
means a popular caricature of prehistoric humans as club-wielding, grunting brutes, based more on cartoons than archaeology.
from popularized by early 20th-century pulp illustrations and films like 1914's Man's Genesis, which imagined Stone Age life as constant clubbing and dragging; real Paleolithic humans painted caves, made jewelry, and buried their dead with care.
brain sizeneanderthals had brains larger than modern humans
pop culture birththe club-and-loincloth look comes from silent films
real dietmostly plants, not just mammoth meat
geico effectinsurance ads revived the stereotype as comedy