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We modern humans tend to look down on our ancient Neanderthal cousins. In our imagination, Neanderthals were brutish, cave dwelling lunks who couldn’t hack it once we left Africa and set up shop in Neanderthal territory in Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.
現代人常常看不起古代的尼安得特人兄弟。我們想象中的尼安得特人是粗野的、身居洞穴里的笨蛋，如果我們離開非洲到歐洲、中亞和中東的尼安得特人領地內開設商鋪，他們一定難以應付。
But Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we tend to give them credit for. They had sophisticated tools and almost certainly had some form of spoken language. And, according to new research, Neanderthals likely took to the seas long before modern humans.
但是，尼安得特人并非我們想象中的那么簡單。他們有復雜的工具，幾乎可以肯定他們會說某種語言。此外，新的研究顯示，尼安得特人可能比現代人更早地掌握航海技術。
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