User blog comment:Godfrey Raphael/Humans and Neanderthals coexisting?/@comment-1593341-20120205045853

I watched a PBS documentary recently that went into some recent discoveries about Neanderthals, mainly that they were carnivorous and spent nearly all their energy hunting, leaving little time for any sort of real development. If something happened to lead to a shift from hunting to domesticating herd animals their numbers could increase to a point that they could survive possibly.