Neanderthals, ie. People from the Neander Valley, Used Aspirin and Penicillin

Calling "Neanderthal" a human relative perpetuates the mythology of evolution but in actuality "Neanderthal" DNA is identical to "modern man's" DNA.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150325111932/https://www.s8int.com/phile/sophis43.html

Photo: El Sidron upper jaw: a dental calculus deposit is visible on the rear molar (right) of this Neandertal.

This individual was eating poplar, a source of aspirin, and had also consumed moulded vegetation including Penicillium fungus, source of a natural antibiotic.

Credit: Paleoanthropology Group MNCN-CSIC

https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel.../2017/03/170308131218.htm

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