Seems to me the Neanderthals were more "civilized" than modern day inner city blacks:

"If you’re Asian or Caucasian, your ancestors interbred with Neanderthals as recently as 37,000 years ago, when they crossed paths in Europe.

They were the ultimate craftsmen, able to pick up impressive skills through practice

Credit Neanderthals with a couple of great ideas: They made spears by hafting stone points to wooden shafts, and bonding them with glue

they nursed each other back to health, enlisting their greatest concept of all: empathy.

They also had medicine. Traces of chamomile and yarrow, two anti-inflammatories, have been detected in the plaque on Neanderthal teeth.

Or are these pungent traces of haute cuisine? Neanderthals balanced their carnivorous diets with vegetables roasted over smoky fires

Evidently Spain was the place to be if you were a Neanderthal with cultural pretensions. Last summer, paintings in El Castillo Cave on the Pas River were found to be at least 40,800 years old."

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Neanderthals | DiscoverMagazine.com

Look at this art...you tell me they're not "us"...MUCH closer than blacks.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/presspublish...97/horses2.jpg

http://www.newhistorian.com/wp-conte...l-rock-art.jpg


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