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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Neanderthals. Remember the chart that you saw

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Speaker 2: when you were at school of the ascent of Man?

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Speaker 2: Is that what it was. There'd be a hunched over chimpanzee,

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Speaker 2: then gradually standing slightly more upright, until eventually you saw

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Speaker 2: the Homo sapien.

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Speaker 3: And there was chromegnum man.

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Speaker 2: Chromegnum man, and the Homo sapien. The Neanderthal was somewhere

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Speaker 2: in the middle of all that, and the Anderthal was

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Speaker 2: a slight, heavy browed, crouched over, hairy creature. Yep, what

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Speaker 2: they are saying now. I heard an interesting podcast is

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Speaker 2: as a New York Times did a podcast on this,

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Speaker 2: is that when they found the skeleton of the Neanderthal

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Speaker 2: and then sort of put it together shonkily, they kind

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Speaker 2: of didn't put it together correctly, then just drew it

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Speaker 2: with hair on it. And that's the image we've had

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Speaker 2: of the Neanderthal or Neanderthal as some people say. But

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Speaker 2: apparently the one skeleton they had they've discovered now was

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Speaker 2: an old one that had osteoarth writers. So to be

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Speaker 2: like taking someone who is suffering terribly from arthritis and

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Speaker 2: all stoopid and saying that's what all human beings look like. Ah,

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Speaker 2: so we have attributed a lot of imagery to Neanderthal

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Speaker 2: That isn't necessarily true.

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Speaker 3: You just hadn't mean drinking the A two milk and.

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Speaker 2: Take your tablets, for God's sake, take your calcium.

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Speaker 3: Has he been at a chemists warehouse?

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Speaker 2: But what they're saying now is that other studies have

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Speaker 2: also shown that Neanderthals were, as they say here, robust, clever,

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Speaker 2: They used tools, well fed. They may have been the

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Speaker 2: first ones to harness fire. There's evidence I don't know

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Speaker 2: how they found this evidence that maybe they kissed written

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Speaker 2: in the tree, that they held funerals for each other,

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Speaker 2: which shows that they had empathy and family community relations

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Speaker 2: with you know, an emotional kind of component to it.

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Speaker 2: So not the caveman stereotype that we've all fought. So

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Speaker 2: they're going back now and looking at that. And of

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Speaker 2: course the way the chain goes is that where most

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Speaker 2: of us would have maybe up to two percent maybe

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Speaker 2: more than that of Neanderthal genes DNA. So at some

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Speaker 2: point we splintered off. The Homo sapiens went towards Africa.

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Speaker 2: I think and the Neanderthals maybe went through Asia. But

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Speaker 2: having said that, over the intervening years there was co mingling,

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Speaker 2: which is why we share some DNA. But let's talk

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Speaker 2: about what they're constantly finding out about the Neanderthals. So

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Speaker 2: they're not dumb, they move, they're not all that stuff

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Speaker 2: that we've attributed them to them. But they have been

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Speaker 2: able to study the voice characteristics of the Neanderthal, the

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Speaker 2: how the voice box would work, how the bones in

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Speaker 2: the throat would work, how their vocalizations would sound. This

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Speaker 2: is a historian and to help them recreate the sound

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Speaker 2: of the Neanderthal, we have a voice actor called Elliott.

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Speaker 2: Imagine getting this call from your agent Hu and you've

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Speaker 2: done a lot of great voice over work. How do

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Speaker 2: you feel about learning to recreate the voice.

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Speaker 3: Of voice agency? So what did they ring up? Eight?

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Speaker 1: Kid?

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Speaker 3: We've got a big gig for you.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, how would you feel afterwards? Anyway, this is Iliot

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Speaker 2: being taken through the steps of how to speak like

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Speaker 2: a Neanderthal and most of.

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Speaker 3: All, a huge nasal cavity.

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Speaker 1: Let's just add a bit of nasal now one free now.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that would be happening, which would actually

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Speaker 1: increase that quality is a very heavy skull that seems

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Speaker 1: to pull down into the throat there. Now add to

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Speaker 1: that the fact that they had a fantastic chest, which

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Speaker 1: is a support system of breath which can produce enormous

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Speaker 1: chess resonance and tremendous power. So I imagine that they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have subtle sounds. It would be loud, very loud, or

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Speaker 1: very very loud. And we can try and get that

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Speaker 1: by I'm now going to engage Eliot by pushing to me,

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Speaker 1: and this is actually getting him right into his body.

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Speaker 1: Now speak, Now, let's make a sound. Just let's make

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Speaker 1: a huge r and again.

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Speaker 2: Now it's off to do a macas ade.

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Speaker 3: Hello, it's one step away from home and away. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: That was very good, Interesting, isn't it