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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Health care isn't just a benefit of the modern human age. It goes way back. All the way, even, to the Neandertals.
"We imagine they would have been cleaning wounds, dressing wounds." Penny Spikins, a paleolithic archaeologist at the University of York in the U.K. "They may have used things like splints when you've got broken limbs. We know they had some forms of painkillers."
And they most likely needed them. Because remains of Neandertals show that most individuals seem to have suffered a serious injury at least once. The key detail being that those injuries didn't always kill them.
Spikins and her team catalogued more than 30 cases of Neandertals who'd been injured but didn't die of their wounds, to investigate the pattern of health care in premodern humans. And they concluded that health care may have been key to their colonizing extreme environments, and pursuing dangerous prey, like mammoths and woolly rhinos.

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"Health care wasn't just something cultural for Neandertals. It also performed an ecological function. It allowed them to punch above their weight as a predator."
Their conclusions are in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
And the results are one more reminder that Neandertals shared many of the qualities we think of as human. Except, of course, that they never made it out of the Pleistocene.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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predator ['predətə]

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n. 食肉动物,掠夺者

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advertise ['ædvətaiz]

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v. 登广告,为 ... 做广告,宣传

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prey [prei]

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n. 被掠食者,牺牲者
vi. 捕食,掠夺,使

 
indirect [.indi'rekt]

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adj. 间接的,迂回的,次要的,不坦率的,欺骗的

 
reminder [ri'maində]

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n. 提醒物,提示

 
extreme [ik'stri:m]

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adj. 极度的,极端的
n. 极端,极限

 
except [ik'sept]

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vt. 除,除外
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function ['fʌŋkʃən]

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n. 功能,函数,职务,重大聚会
vi. 运行

 
association [ə.səusi'eiʃən]

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n. 联合,结合,交往,协会,社团,联想

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ecological [.ekə'lɔdʒikəl]

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adj. 生态的,生态学的

 

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