A Deep and Abiding Need for Neanderthals to Be Stupid. Why?

When Neanderthal man was first classified, he satisfied a felt need for a separate,intellectually inferiorhuman species, fleshing out (so to speak) the Ascent of Man. But there has been a significant change in his status in recent years, as researchers began separating what we see from what we think ought to be or must be true.

The editors of the British newspaper The Guardian, for example, recently reappraised Neanderthals' intelligence in the light ofevidenceof their use of pigments and deco...