Mailund on the Internet

I’ve just come back from the dentist.  I had a root canal treatment for my toothache.

That was lots of fun.

I think I’ll go and get some nice paper cuts now; maybe pour some lemon in them….

Actually, I have no particular reason to believe that Neanderthals should be dumber than Homo sapience. Well, they were around for thousands of years with very little if any development in the kind of tools they used (or left behind, in any case) while we have managed to improve on tool design quite frequently.

At least lately, I don’t know how fast we were innovating in the stone age.

In any case, what I wanted to go with this is to this page that describes a study of Neanderthal and Homo sapience tools and conclude that they were equally efficient.

Does this mean that Neanderthals were as smart as us?  I guess it doesn’t necessarily, but at least they were as technically advanced.

How did we outcompete them, exactly, and why are they gone?