Neanderthals have been viewed by scientists for years as being unintelligent brutes, incapable of language and high level thought. Recent research in genetics has made important discoveries about Neanderthals. Geneticists are extracting DNA from the remains of Neanderthals and comparing it to the DNA of homo-sapiens and there have been some surprising discoveries. The process of decoding and analyzing the DNA had never been done before. Scientists compared the genomes in Neanderthals genetic blueprint with the genetic make-up for five humans of different ethnicities. They discovered that Europeans and then Asians had more in common with Neanderthals than Africans. Continue reading...