Bren’s Reviews > Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind > Status Update

'When Charles Darwin indicated that the Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged. Even today many refuse to believe it. Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart? Perhaps this is exactly why our ancestors wiped out the Neanderthals. They're were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate.'