Jul 4, 2022
Hello Robert!
Actually, it seems the odds were high that neanderthals knew language and could communicate with us.
https://katrinapaulson.medium.com/what-was-important-enough-for-language-to-form-4f9f2744763c
In addition to breeding with us. Amazingly, it seems that it wasn't H.sapien violence against Neaderthals that killed them off, but their inability to breed with us.