Episode 34: Skullduggery (1970)

Today we’re reviewing the most problematic movie we’ll ever recommend you watch (but only once, and then never again): Skullduggery (1970) stars Burt Reynolds as a charismatic misogynistic capitalist who manipulates an anthropologist into accidentally discovering a living missing link, whom he enslaves, and whose humanity he later tries to prove in a court of law. If that sounds unbelievable, you may not be prepared for the twists and turns this movie takes.

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In this episode:

• Watch the movie on YouTube before we spoil it

• The history of Homo erectus taxonomy

• The tuberculum geniale is on the mandible, not the humerus

• Species concepts

• You can’t name a species after yourself

• Hominid and Hominin: what’s the difference?

• What is an anthropoid?

• Dating an archaeologist

• Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman