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Discoveries like these helped overturn the image of Neanderthals that prevailed during the Victorian era, when they were often portrayed as primitive, brutish, and less than fully human.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Their pack is still brutish, highlighted by a punishing takedown of rivals Northampton Saints last month.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

But in screenwriter Noah Pink’s melodramatic imagining of incidents both well-documented and mysterious, one can see this Hollywood veteran on a mission to loosen the shackles of his reputation and have some nasty, brutish fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025

The message of the book is that the Iks have transformed themselves into an irreversibly disagreeable collection of unattached, brutish creatures, totally selfish and loveless, in response to the dismantling of their traditional culture.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas