man, and the question is : What happened? The easy answer is that modern man's superior technology wiped out Neanderthal man, but there is also the possibility of interbreeding. With the evidence available today, we just don't know.(C) 1990, Los Angeles Times Syndicate ...
man was too like us to be unable to speak, and in 1958, I wrote a story titled “The Ugly Little Boy” in which a Neanderthal child is brought into the present and learns to speak English as well as we do.Lester and I have argued repeatedly over this question. I shall be sure to break the news of the hyoid bone's discovery to thim gently.(c) 1989, Los Angeles Times ...
,000 years, but for 55,000 years, why should it have taken modern men that long to wipe out Neander-thal man? Were the Neanderthals smarter than we thought? Did they put up a much better fight?Scientists must now wrestle with these questions. But it's sad thought that modern man, if he really tried, could nowadays prob-ably wipe himself out in 55,000 seconds.(c) 1988, Los Angeles Times ...