Actually, a few days ago, an NPR article [1] suggested the possibility that the Neanderthals didn't exactly 'die out'. Rather: "We neither murdered them nor out

Actually, a few days ago, an NPR article [1] suggested the possibility that the Neanderthals didn't exactly 'die out'. Rather: "We neither murdered them nor outcompeted them. We mated with them and, in time, simply folded them into our species until they disappeared." Also, related to some other comments, the same NPR article claims that "there's evidence they thought about life in complicated ways" based on how they cared for an elder and their burial rituals. [1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/03/08/173813194/what-happened-when-humans-met-an-alien-intelligence-sex-happened http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/03/08/173813194/what-...