2: Another Kind of Human
'They survived for a quarter of a million years; we've only been around for 100,000 years. They may turn out to have been better adapted than we were.
Why did robust earlier humans give way to the slender weaklings that rule the Earth today? Are we better than they were, or just different?
Colin Tudge asked students ot prehistory at a conference in Cambridge about life and death among the Neanderthals.
(Finalprogramme next Sunday)