Leituras

Neanderthals were not cognitively inferior to Moderns nor do I find support for a sudden mutation that generated the complete package that made up the Modern Human overnight. Neanderthals were simply different. A morphology and way of life that had become increasingly complex and had been successful across the mid-latitude belt of western and central Eurasia for close to half-a-million years disappeared because it was not designed to cope with the speed and direction of change that hit Eurasia at the end of the Pleistocene. (p. 207)