They were making the same tools, hunting by the same methods, eating the same food. Nothing about them changed. Fascinating, don’t you think? The fact that our closest relatives were incapable of change. The fact that progress was a completely unknown concept to them. No improvisation, no spontaneity, it just didn’t exist. The first humans were an inconceivable revolution when they turned up. What set us apart from the Neanderthals was exactly what we’re now trying to get rid of.”
