[Old Seadog]

The ability to talk doesn’t indicate intelligence. Just look at out politicians.

[Pontiac]

Until recently common scientific opinion has painted a picture of Neanderthals as a slow and dim-witted species that was outwitted by its smarter cousins who went on to become modern humans while the Neanderthals died out.

It is now the common consensus among scientist that the Neanderthals were Democrats thus explaining their extinction.