Discovery ran a special on Neaderthals and the supposed reasons for their demise this weekend.
I don't think it was all that convincing but revealed some interesting new data about them.
My theory is people that like to eat meat like I do must be part Neaderthal.
Those veggie crunching PETA types are probably non-Neaderthals.
I heard about that on another forum. He mentioned a claim that the Neanderthal inner ear wouldn't give them a sense of balance adequate for them to run. So, they existed for 500,000 years and all that time, they couldn't run? Yeah, sure. And a few years back, some veg-heads claimed that the Neanderthal went extinct because he ate too much meat. That ridiculous imbecile who referred to Neanderthal as "the village idiot" claimed that speech was enabled by genes on the mitochondria, and that the Neanderthal's lack of speech led to extinction. :')