Originally Posted by
chasm54
We've all got 'em. And by all accounts, it looks like our Neanderthal ancestors were nicer than we are. They were stronger and probably just as bright as the cro - magnons, so were probably squeezed out because they were less aggressive. I'm pretty much all cro - magnon, I'm afraid.
Wow. We're all feeling quite Rousseauean here today, Noble Savage and all that sort of thing. Nature has always been red in tooth and claw, and I doubt life for our most ancient of ancestors was anything but nasty, brutish, and short.
Then again, when I hear Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez recordings I'm willing to reconsider this position.