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Our primate ancestors may have learned to walk while still in the treetops
Our primate ancestors may have learned to walk while still in the treetops,Too often, in popular media, primitive humans have been depicted as unintelligent and brutish. We use them to highlight our own superiority, or to sell car insurance. Then we got The Croods (now streaming on Peacock!), and we finally had some cave people to root for. They aren’t the most socially advanced, and they don’t quite walk upright, but they mean well, and they stick together.

Our primate ancestors may have learned to walk while still in the treetops

Too often, in popular media, primitive humans have been depicted as unintelligent and brutish. We use them to highlight our own superiority, or to sell car insurance. Then we got The Croods (now streaming on Peacock!), and we finally had some cave people to root for. They aren’t the most socially advanced, and they don’t quite walk upright, but they mean well, and they stick together.