[RightWhale]

non-speaking Neandertal idea is a persistent baseless idea

Of course they talked. The wimmin gossiped about the men when the men were out ambushing an aurochs and the men joked about a less-than-dextrous move that got one of them trampled by the aurochs. How would it be any different than now?

[SunkenCiv]

“If the Neandertal had stayed in school when the Cro-Magnon schoolmarm had hit the neighborhood, he wouldn’t have been stuck with Auroch.” — John Kerry