Thursday, May 21, 2020

№ 861: Why Not Neanderthals?

CONSIDER IT (May 20) 
Neanderthal Museum, Krapina, Croatia  
Photo by Nikola Solic/Reuters
Neanderthals. Were they so super stupid
that they were extincted by us
H. Saps. whose brains, a priori,
were better than theirs? End of the story.
Or were H. Neas. simply less vicious,
more peaceful, more gentle and thus
a breeze to dispatch for superior Saps.?
We do see ourselves as spectacular chaps
in that we can be totally brutal,
a species that deems fair play unfruitful,
whose unstated motto is something akin to:
Do what you have to in order to win.
This attitude, while crude, has its perks.
The first and foremost being it works.