@sonhouse saidCan you link the article?
"The old story goes we won, beating out Neandertals because we were smarter, better hunters and innovators."
From an article in the latest Scientific American.
The gist of that is it was none of the above.
Neandertals were stronger, had bigger brains and could probably crush a modern human in ten seconds.
The new view is our superpower as a species was 'self dom ...[text shortened]... the next generation did not have to redo the effort of the last generation. Our hidden superpower.
@medullah saidThat probably made inter-breeding a lot easier.
I believe that Dr Robecca Cann (1987) in her research on Mitochondrial Eve did indeed demonstrate that what we regard as Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens did in fact co-exist.