Humans vs Superhumans | When Monsters Were Real and We Almost Went Extinct

this episode of the Y files is brought to you by the Y files operation podcast deep Dives and longer stories every week humans are the apex predator not an apex predator the apex predator there's no animal on earth that is stronger more intelligent or more adaptable than Homo sapiens but telling the human story from the beginning is difficult it was a time when two words defined our world fear and violence it was a time when we were not the apex predator we were their prey we emerged from our caves during the day hoping we wouldn't be hunted by the monsters in the woods so vicious were these monsters they still live in our myths and our nightmares they created a generational trauma embedded into our DNA over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution these creatures were stronger faster and when it came to combat more intelligent than we were it's a miracle any of us are even here this is the story of how modern humans conquered the monsters and won the battle for the world but here's the thing those fearsome monsters defeated by humans were other [Music] humans until next time be safe be kind and know that you are appreciated sir I'm going to need you to come with us uh okay [Music] hello can anybody hear me I don't know why I'm here take off the pillowcase we are agents with the cfp cfp I I don't know what that is I I never heard of that yeah that's not your concern uh okay we have been following your show and we have reason to believe hey dude I thought I was going to do the investigation this time if you're getting do it then do it stop sitting there do it all right jeez we have been following your show and we have reason to believe that you have far more information on your topics that you've been sharing what we have been following your show no no no I I I heard you I just I I just don't know what that means we have been following your show he speaks English you your question is confusing my question is not confusing yeah it he's just playing you're well if you know that I have more information then you already know that I what I know that you know just tell us what we want to know okay what what what episode are you talking about what episode are we talking about I don't know dude you're you're the researcher no you're supposed to know this what the heck the one that has more information look guys I have a podcast that covers all of this the yfiles operation podcast comes out every week on Mondays we release the YouTube episodes and then on Wednesdays we do deep dives into those stories and then we cover unredacted topics that are a little too sensitive for you YouTube kind of makes sense and uh where does this podcast air uh the wi files operation podcast you can get it on Apple Amazon Spotify Pandora anywhere you listen to podcasts sounds really convenient actually super smart okay go unlock his cuffs so can I go me unlock the Cuffs you have the keys No I gave you the keys you did not give the keys specifically you you give me ke you're the one who sat on the syringe on everyone L that we were Men In Black and we're way cooler than in the movies we are way cooler than the guys in the movies give me a little supporter while down fine whatever what wait wait where do he go a damn it not again you are not who you think you are well you're human but we Homo sapiens weren't the first type of humans just 50,000 years ago various species of humans shared the planet with us at the same time and they were everywhere denisovans settled in Russia florensis traveled all the way to Indonesia lenensis traveled through Asia and all the way down through the Philippines and of course there's us Homo sapiens we evolved in Africa then moved into the Arabian Peninsula and spread to other parts of Asia Australia Europe and the Americas in time Homo sapiens would colonize every habitable region on Earth but that would take thousands of years because there was something or someone standing in the way of our progress another species of human a species of human that was Stronger Faster and more adaptable to extreme environments this fearsome and fearless Warrior species was the Neanderthal the Neanderthal was not the dumb bumbling caveman you were taught in school they were intelligent had spoken language they built large family groups that organized into tribes that then organized into Villages they conquered fire they created art they created Music they created tools but their specialty was creating weapons this species of superhuman Warriors conquered Europe easily they crossed the English Channel and conquered Britain the warm coasts of the Mediterranean 2o were theirs for 500,000 years they devoured Europe the Middle East and Asia they were the kings of the world the Ultimate Warriors the apex predator unlike other human species who ate mostly fruits seeds and Grains neanderthals only ate meat they were strong enough to take on animals that no other creature would touch Cave Bears leopards mammoths even rhinos but their favorite prey their favorite food was us [Music] do you know the names of your great grandparents what about the names of their great grandparents I can only trace my family back a few Generations royal families and Nobles have records of their ancestors that go back hundreds of years some over a thousand the Chinese philosopher confucious has one of the world's most extensive family trees today confucious has millions of living descendants yeah so does WIIL Chamberlain documentation of confucius's family goes back 2500 years even those people are not who they think they are 2500 years is nothing our story is much older than that millions of years older 7 million years ago a new primate split off from chimpanzees this was sinanthropus chenis sinanthropus was a new type of species the first homin hominins include modern humans extinct human species in all of our immediate ancestors modern humans Homo sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago so what about all the time in between were there humans sure lots of them a million years after santhrupthi legs are overrated well bipedalism exposes less of the body to the sun which helps with heat regulation and walking on two legs instead of four is also much more energy efficient but the biggest advantage of all it freed up the hands for carrying objects food and tools ardipithecus or Arty came next they definitely walked upright early humans mostly ate leaves fruits nuts and seeds but Arty was one of the first human species to consume meat though it was rare well I prefer medium rare no it was rare meaning uncommon ah still early humans were mostly vegetarian oh really did they tie the fur and their head into AP buns maybe Splash on a little pachuli do some hot Monkey Yoga no they didn't eat meat because animals were fast or dangerous usually both eating whatever was growing on trees and bushes was easier and much safer bunch of hippie monkey snowflakes then comes a different species a Australopithecus you might have heard of the ancient homin named Lucy she was Australopithecus afarensis a few million years later paranthropus emerged these humans were bigger than their ancestors on average they were about 4 and 1/2 ft tall their brains were getting larger too paranthropus was a tough creature powerful fast muscular they ate fruit and vegetation too but these hominins were now strong enough to catch and kill larger and larger animals which they did many scientists believe the highquality nutrients from larger game played a role in increasing their brain size paranthropus soon learned that they can catch even larger game if they banded together humans were now becoming social creatures this is where human development begins to accelerate by creating social groups it allowed adult humans to teach skills to their children their technology was primitive but it improved with each generation homohabilis came next and had a much larger brain almost 700 g they began to look more like us than Apes they lived in communities they are the first known users of stone tools human species were advancing rapidly at this point next comes Homo erectus yeah Homo erectus please don't be a child homo means man erectus means upright um I already know and erectus is upright unless I have too much vodka that's enough all right all right all right all right these jokes are too easy anyway anyway the uh upright humans had very large brains they discovered and harnessed fire they used sophisticated tools built shelters and lived in communities they innovated Advanced hunting techniques like herting ambushing and setting traps they were highly adaptable to any climate warm or cold and so erectus is the first human species to leave Africa erectus was tall standing 5' 9 in some even taller wow that is a biggy Reus please stop at some point in school a teacher showed you this chart this is the evolution of man right wrong sapiens didn't evolve directly from erectus erectus launched the species hyob bensis it was at this point where early humans learned a new skill a skill that would help shape the world for future generations and shapes our world still this new skill was violence when hominins evolved from chimps they weren't much different than monkeys but over millions of years they learned to walk on two legs freeing up their hands their brains grew much larger allowing them to learn skills they organized into tribes developed simple language and were able to pass on knowledge information and skills to their offspring H highle bensis branched off two new species one of those was us Homo sapiens the other Branch was well Lord of the Rings did you just say Lord of the Rings yep from hle bensis came floresiensis they're commonly called Hobbits they were about 3 and 1/2 ft tall and had large hairy flat feet just like a hobbit and they lived in the sh uh no these hobbits live deep in the jungles of Indonesia uh no no you're thinking of Tom Bombadil no he lived in the forest Ah that's right can I get back to this now you shall not I'm just kidding go ahead for over 200,000 years several different species of humans Shar the Earth Hobbits denisovans hyob bensis homoerectus and quite a few more but then about 70,000 years ago all human species started dying out one by one finally all species of humans went extinct except for two us and Neanderthals today most neanderthals are depicted looking very much like we do a little shorter a little stockier maybe they have a larger eyebrow Ridge but for the most part you'll find picture after picture of cheerful looking neanderthals big smiles Rosy Cheeks but there's evidence that they didn't look human at all that's where Lord of the Rings comes into play a new study shows that neanderthals were real life Orcs And they were terrifying huge hulking beasts with thick fur cat-like eyes and physical strength far greater than any Homo Sapien their bones were much heavier than ours to support their enormous muscular strength one of the most characteristic features of the Neanderthals is the exaggerated massiveness of their trunk and limb bones all of the preserved bones suggest a strength seldom attained by modern humans a healthy Neanderthal male could lift an average NFL linebacker over his head and throw him through the goalposts their limbs were stocky their noses were large and Broad their jaws were designed for eating meat any meat even each other's neanderthals were smart organized and experts at War their hunting parties became small armies in close combat a Neanderthal could easily overpower five or six modern humans no other species had a chance wherever neanderthals went all other human species in the area went extinct except for us we fled we surrendered our land to the monsters and retreated but wherever we went neanderthals followed neanderthals discovered that we were a valuable resource our species was useful to them in two ways one our men were good for eating and two our women were good for [Music] mating no time in human history was more violent than when we share the Earth with neanderthals if your ancestors were alive today they describe the most formidable beings emerging from the darkness in the dead of night huge muscles sitting at top a skeleton 25 times more dense than our own their skin was thick too tough to penetrate with most arroe heads these creatures evolved during our last ice age and migrated from northern Europe their bodies were covered in black fur their backs were hunched like a gorilla but they weren't slow neanderthals were agile much faster than us despite our smaller size and lighter weight their broad noses evolved to give them an extremely sensitive sense of smell and taste they could detect our scent for Miles a neanderthals eyes were enormous sunken with split pupils like a cat's eyes allowing them to see extremely well in the dark like nocturnal monkeys today who also have split pupils neanderthals eyes contained a layer of tissue called tapetum lucidum when you see an animal's eyes shining at night you're seeing the reflection of this special tissue it's a type of night vision light enters the eye and passes through the retina to pedum lucidum acts like a mirror and reflects more light back into the retina this biological adaptation is seen in many different animals cats dogs deer nocturnal birds and many more but not us we can't see in the dark but neanderthals could some psychologists believe this is why so many people are afraid of the dark it's a generational trade a defense mechanism encoded into our DNA after thousands of years of being hunted at night but the mouths of Neanderthals were the most terrifying part of all their teeth were twice as big as ours with a bite force that could crush human bone neanderthals built communities they developed Technologies used mostly for hunting hunting was a neanderthals most important activity a neanderthal size meant they needed a huge amount of food their diets were 97% meat each fully grown adult had to eat more than 4 lounds of Flesh every day to survive and they didn't care where the meat came from aside from hunting mammoths rhinos bison and giant Cave Bears neanderthals also hunted each other tribes would raid Villages rival Neanderthal groups would not only kill their enemies but eat them as well and there's plenty of evidence of this fossilized Bones Show clear signs of Butchery the Neanderthals favorite food human marrow neanderthals were so powerful and confident they hunted and ate cave Lions cave Lions weighed more than 700 lb our ancestors didn't go anywhere near big cats but a cave lion was no match for Neanderthal same with bears our ancestors ran away from bears Neanderthals grabbed Spears and ran toward them and it wouldn't take long before those Spears were aimed at [Music] us around 125,000 years ago our ancestors settled the levantine region the levantine is now East Africa Israel and Western Asia the levantine sites show our ancestors developing tools creating jewelry and caring for the sick they lived in tribes they developed agriculture they were physically recognizable as modern humans they were building a complex structured Society they were on their way to building an early civilization but then something happened a new Ice Age had arrived this was a period of Rapid glacial growth the deserts Advanced and the forests of Europe disappeared Under Ice as the climate got colder neanderthals migrated South their territories were expanding their hunting grounds were now advancing into the land occupied by us we were also dealing with the shifting climate and our bodies weren't developed to deal with it we were slender we didn't have fur or thick skin to protect us from the cold the Neanderthals bodies were designed to create heat Homo sapiens are designed to lose it and instead of sharing our land with us neanderthals did what all humans do no matter the species Dominate and conquer the Neanderthals had no choice these other humans these skinny weak hairless creatures they had to go around 880,000 years ago the human fossil record started to disappear and things grew colder most archaeologists attribute the decline of the human population to climate change climate change here we go again just build a nuclear power plant you this was 80,000 years ago excuses excuses I I don't think you're being fair don't make me drop a how dare you please don't we go to that well a little too much [Music] but humans didn't disappear from the area because it got cold they disappeared because they were hunted fossils of Neanderthal bones are still found there but no human bones why not well because neanderthals ate [Music] them you would think that neanderthals and modern humans being so much alike would learn to get along in On the Origin of Species Darwin says that killing each other is not only natural behavior it's obvious competition will generally be most severe between those forms which are most related to each other varieties of the same species having nearly the same structure Constitution and habits come into the severest competition with each other each new variety or species during formation will press hardest on its nearest Kindred and exterminate them and they almost did Neanderthals hunted Homo sapiens to the point of near Extinction on multiple occasions we know this because the genetic variation within Homo sapiens is the lowest of all primate species the genetic difference between human to human no matter your race or ethnicity is about 0. 1% that's how closely related we are so what does that mean around 880,000 years ago when our species and Neanderthals were violently competing for resources we nearly went extinct but the Neanderthal population was doing just fine but us Homo sapiens we were down to 50 people one study says it could have been as low as 40 that's it only 40 or 50 people left on earth oh Bill Gates would have loved this there's a small group of chimps in West Africa made up of about 50 individuals they're all from the same family they have about twice as much genetic variability as all humans on average chimpanzees have a genetic variation of 1. 2% compared to our 0.

1% and chimps are our closest relatives we have such low genetic variability because we came within inches of Extinction we had to start over with just a few dozen families and here's how it happened I want you to imagine the world 880,000 years AO ago maybe you're 10 or 11 years old you live in a wooden Hut with your family your Hut is one of many maybe 30 in all you live on the shores of a lake surrounded by a forest in the morning you're sent to gather fresh water your father and brothers are up early to catch small game like birds and rabbits which they bring back to the Village your uncle is at the lake with some other men Gathering shellfish if they're lucky they'll find a nice fat turtle your mother and the other women Butcher and cook the meat there's a clearing nearby you and the other children gather fruits and berries you store them in a cool cave nearby though nobody's looking you help yourself to a few berries you are a key part of a community your skills are dependent upon not just by your family but by the rest of your tribe for your entire life you've never gone more than a mile or two away from your village neither of your parents or their parents it's a communal existence simple peaceful but your favorite part part of the day is after Sunset a warm fire is built and the village gathers around to sing laugh and tell stories late into the night your favorite stories are the scary ones the tribal Elders tell Tales of monsters who lurk in the forest stealing children who venture too far A little time goes by now you're in your teenage years your duties change maybe you join the hunting party maybe you help cook or sew maybe you learn the art of healing through herbal medicine though your life has changed so much these past few years the stories stay the same now it's your own father with his long Gray beard telling tales of the monsters in the woods you laugh as the children cringe in fear as you once did not so long ago suddenly your father stops talking and angles his head he's heard something there's a snap from the forest nearby a broken Branch the rustling of dry brush something heavy is in the woods a it can't be an animal the fire burns bright and hot even the biggest predator wouldn't dare come close then there's more rustling of brush whatever's making the noise it's coming closer and it's big and heavy more branches snap this time from a different direction there's more than one from somewhere a woman screams in Terror everyone around the fire is frozen trying to locate the sound the screaming doesn't stop another starts this time it's a man he sounds like he's crying for help his screaming suddenly becomes a gurgling and he goes quiet the woman's screams are now more distant she's being carried away you look at your father and scan the faces of the men around the fire they're afraid they grab their Spears which are always kept close by then you see a shadow it looks like a man but it's the biggest man you've ever seen all your life your village has traded with and communicated with other villages in the area these events have always been peaceful sometimes they were celebrations none of this made any sense but then the man took a step forward toward the light it's no man at least not a man like you've ever seen he's not that tall but he's so wide and muscular he seems unnaturally large his back is hunched his skin looks thick and leathery patches of his body are covered in thick fur he looks right at you and shows enormous teeth then you realize he's smiling he's wiping something sticky off his chin blood his hulking frame takes slow lumbering steps toward you he doesn't need to run he knows he'll catch you it takes a moment to realize what you're seeing but it finally clicks the Elders of your tribe weren't telling Tales to control your childhood Behavior sometime many many years ago we'd been here before out of nowhere a man from your tribe your uncle charges the creature your uncle swings a club at the Beast it Ducks steps to the side grabs your uncle by his throat and lifts him off the ground with one hand something this big shouldn't be able to move this fast you're Frozen in place as your uncle dangles in midair arms and legs flailing the creature squeezes there's an audible crack it throws your uncle's lifeless body 20 ft and turns its gaze back on you then more of these creatures swamp The Village it's Mayhem violent Mayhem you're trying not to panic but you're Frozen in place your father runs past you toward the chaos wielding his spear you go to follow but he turns to tell you no then you see a stone spearhead emerge from the front of his chest he wines and looks right at you in his eyes you can see the anger the fear and the love you hear him whisper the cave as he takes his final breath then you run as you get farther from the village you still hear the screams but they're becoming more faint then the screaming stops you don't dare look over your shoulder but you can tell by the reflection of the leaves that the entire Village your home is on fire everyone you love everyone you've ever known is [Music] gone evidence shows that for over a 100,000 years neanderthals and humans were at constant War signs of prehistoric Warfare are easy to spot a swift powerful Club strike to the head was a common killing method prehistoric Homo sapiens often had skull fractures indicating blunt force trauma neanderthals had similar injuries a Parry fracture is another sign of War Warfare a par fracture is a lower arm break from deflecting attacks neanderthals had many instances of broken arms young Neanderthal males frequently suffered trauma and death their average lifespan was about 40 you'd be a village Elder and then some while some injuries might have occurred during hunting the patterns indicate intert triable Warfare this Warfare was small scale yet intense marked by prolonged conflict it primarily involved gorilla style raids and ambushes with occasional larger battles War also influences territorial boundaries there's proof that neanderthals not only engaged in war but mastered it for 100,000 years modern humans tried to encroach on the enderal land and for 100,000 years humans were held back but to the victors of War go the spoils when neanderthals won a battle with humans the spoils s were gruesome men were taken as food we know this from fossil records the fate of human women was worse neanderthals and humans were sexually compatible today people of non-african descent carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA people of African descent also carry some Neanderthal DNA and you could bet much of it wasn't placed there by choice it's common knowledge that neanderthals and humans interbred but that sounds more consensual than it was the full story is that neanderthals hunted us for food hunted us for fun and hunted us for sex now there's a lot of evolutionary evidence of this that's interesting but it's not very familyfriendly so if you want to know more ask me during a live stream but please put the kids to bed first now the story I told earlier took place about 80,000 years ago around that time neanderthals expanded into and conquered the Middle East and they held that land for over 30,000 years that is a long long time this is where the most recent bottleneck in our genetic variation occurs Homo sapiens conquered by neanderthals were knocked down to maybe even as few as 40 or 50 individuals as our Villages burned our men were slaughtered everyone else was enslaved or eaten but a few of us got away we went High into the mountains into cave systems we've known for generations and like that young human fled to the caves to escape slaughter a few others did too and this happened all over the area in previous episodes I've talked about cave systems like Daren cuyu and turkey daru is an underground city capable of housing at least 20,000 people and their livestock for months maybe even years it's about 300 ft below Earth's surface and it connects to a whole series of underground cities across the area some even bigger than Daren cuyu link below if you want to learn more now for the most part we have no idea how old these underground Villages and cities are building them to hide from the endals makes perfect sense humans lived in caves in Israel as far back as 210,000 years ago throughout history we've used these cave systems as a refuge against attack and we used them again the last time our species was hunted to near Extinction I'd love to tell you a story about how our ancestors rose up from these dark murky places beating the Neanderthals in an epic bloody battle emerging Victorious as Earth's apex predator but that's not what happened when our numbers were the lowest they'd ever been perhaps one or two tribes a few scattered individuals God nature the universe whatever you want to call it came to our rescue with fire and brimstone right around the time Neanderthal started disappearing from the fossil record the ground beneath Italy started [Music] shaking the land splintered across an area of almost 70 square miles the entire surface of the Earth melted into the Caldera below which spewed out enough debris to become the largest volcanic event in the Mediterranean for 200,000 years known as the campanian IGN bright eruption it was made up of superheated gas volcanic ash and lava no one knows the true extent of its Devastation but it caused an immediate and Extreme Ice Age throughout Eastern Europe into Asia maybe even the whole world the entire levantine region was engulfed almost everything The andth Falls needed died their food suffocated their water was toxic the dead became food for the survivors animal species disappeared overnight the giant buffalo went extinct The Woolly Mammoth step bison water buffalo the giant musx giant deer all gone the cave wolf disappeared most types of bear all types of elephants several rodents and many more these animals also happen to be at the primary food source for neanderthals I what no more tasty humans to eat as the Earth around us burned our ancestors went deeper underground we took with us almost 40,000 years of knowing how to survive the constant threat of death some neanderthals survived but their numbers were dwindling fast but neanderthals could survive by mating with modern humans right well wrong nature intervened there too as you would expect most interbreeding was male Neanderthal and female human they were biologically compatible but not without problems male hybrid children were often sterile and couldn't pass on their Neanderthal DNA only female hybrids could human females according to studies prefer to mate with a human male not a neanderthal unless than the end has money interbreeding continued but each generation of hybrids was more human than Neanderthal but even though the first well let's call them interbreeding events were tragic the results were positive by adding their DNA to ours we created stronger immune systems we became more adaptable to non-african climates our bodies became stronger and faster you saying both look at the 958 world record technically neanderthals are extinct but that's not entirely true is it almost everyone on Earth carries a little bit of Neanderthal with them if these traits were harmful or made us weaker natural selection would have removed them from our genetic pool but they didn't neanderthals were vicious Predators who assaulted and devoured every animal they found including us but they were also resilient so resilient they're with us still and now we benefit from their resilience so like it or not neanderthals are here to stay neanderthals are real but how much of this story is true well actually a lot of it most of today's episode comes from a book by Danny Vini called them and us how Neanderthal predation created modern humans it's a great read and I linked it below I also link to Danny substack where he summarizes the book now he makes good arguments but his research is controversial and it is not the mainstream view for example the human population may have been down to 50 in parts of the Middle East but Homo sapiens were already on islands all around the world and had been for thousands of years now when it comes to the physical description of Neanderthals what is there to debate we know they had large eyes because their skulls had huge socket ET in fact almost everything about the physicality of Neanderthals that I presented in this episode is based on physical evidence from bone and fossil records almost everything we don't know for sure if they had fur but we do know Homo sapiens are the only primates without thick fur but we still have a thin layer of it some people have a thinner layer than others what's that supposed to mean have you looked in a mirror you should rename this channel Journal of a receding hairline and I think you're exaggerating I got two words for you Pro pcia anyway every animal alive during the Ice Age had thick fur and no Neanderthal needles or needle work has ever been uncovered so either evidence of Neanderthal clothing is yet to be found or they really were covered in fur as suggested in the book we also know we coexisted with neanderthals we know we fought them for 100,000 years and we know they spent most of that time winning but eventually the tide turned nobody knows for sure how this happened modern humans were probably more intelligent than neanderthals but that's debatable they had the same sized brain that we do our eventual Victory could have been a combination of luck and survival we were hiding in caves but we weren't Idol we were intelligent and we were industrious we knew that if we were going to take our land back we'd need to innovate neanderthals were winning they didn't have to innovate anything so it's possible that while waiting Planning and Building our numbers an early human invented a bow and arrow and other arranged weapons we were no match for neanderthals up close but if we could attack and harass them from a distance then Retreat to our caves we would have an advantage then there was the campanian IGN bright eruption in Italy you can't overestimate the power and Devastation of this [Music] eruption there were pyroclastic flows that were over 3,300 ft high they flowed over mountains the eruption blasted out six of these flows all life within 60 Mi of the crater was destroyed the ground and water was covered in up to 4T of volcanic debris in some places debris has been found as far away as 12200 mi from the crater and every time scientists dig up new information on the eruption it gets bigger and it's overdue for another eruption if you want me to do an episode on that let me know but be warned it's scary no matter how it all ended for neanderthals one thing's for sure we made it with them willingly or otherwise everything I mentioned about the impact of their DNA on modern humans is accurate as far as we know now as far as neanderthals having dark skin and dark fur that's doubtful and debatable we know that fair skin and blonde hair evolved in Northern Europe Neanderthal territory there's also a theory that Neanderthal DNA created redheads oh is that why they're crazy be nice that theory is still being debated what's the debate that crazy no the theory is being debated it's no Theory redheads are nuts the Neanderthal Theory okay okay take it easy I had a bad experience with a ginger maybe I'm painting with the too bro a brush but after all this violence we have something to celebrate there was no guarantee home sapiens would rule the world and we almost didn't but here we are we made it we are now the apex predator of our planet but there is a theory that neanderthals survived still vicious still powerful still covered in hair still lurking in the dark woods but they evolv to be much bigger much taller this Theory says they've become Bigfoot that's a different episode thank you so much for hanging out 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