#RFB-11000714Reading: Fill in the BlanksAcademic,CoreHard
Neanderthals
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Anthropologists' early perception of Neanderthals was partly [blank] in racist ideology that one's intelligence or humanity could be [blank] from skull shape, and that ancestral human species like Neanderthals were necessarily much more "primitive" than humans are today. Those assumptions have now been [blank] : new discoveries over the past few decades have helped to rehabilitate Neanderthals' reputation as people who were a lot like us.
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Anthropologists' early perception of Neanderthals was partly rooted in racist ideology that one's intelligence or humanity could be assessed from skull shape, and that ancestral human species like Neanderthals were necessarily much more "primitive" than humans are today. Those assumptions have now been discredited : new discoveries over the past few decades have helped to rehabilitate Neanderthals' reputation as people who were a lot like us.
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