34: Neanderthals




Talk the Talk show

Summary: Recent work in genetics has revealed that all non-African people are related to Neanderthals, a now-extinct species of human. If there was interbreeding between us, how would they have communicated? Did Neanderthals have language, and what might it have been like? UWA linguist Daniel Midgley goes back in time on this week's Talk the Talk.