Well Ayla did. But what good did it do?
That was exactly MY thought! I guess no one else got the reference. I really enjoyed Jean Auel's books in that series - and she did an enormous amount of reasearch into early man. IIRC, her hypothesis of why the Neanderthals' demise had to do with the size and shape of their heads becoming incompatible with the birth canals. Interesting theory.