The day of the bracket - and Dr Who, tropes, cavespeak and maybe even zombie history

My useless-thought-of-the day came from seeing some very early William Hartnell Dr Who last night. It struck me for the umpteenth time as wrongheaded that cave people (the Dr Who notion - I prefer labels like Homo sapiens neanderthalensis because it deceives me into believing I'm saying something intelligent, then I get the terms wrong or use outdated ones and do we really know that neanderthals actually lived in caves and the whole thing gets messy and I delete the blogpost), that cave peop...