Ludovic Slimak on Neanderthals: “It Was Suicide. Humans Disappear because Their Values Are Falling Apart”

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In his last book, paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak said that as a young man he was dedicated to observing people while playing the gaita dressed with a kilt in the dirty streets of Marseilles. By an unconscious impulse he had decided to dominate that instrument, and he got it, to the point of having a famous band in France. Then his first son was born, he saw himself travelling from bolus to bolus and, in the end, left him. But he could take o…