cro magnons versus neanderthals?

Today's (yesterday's) homework is to write about a question raised by the first chapter in Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.



Why do I think the cro magnons caused neanderthals to die out? Well, in my eyes and using some of the evidence from the book, I believe it's because of the advanced abilities of the cro-magnons. The neanderthals, while they had a larger head capacity and brain, they were simple minded creatures. They had extremely crude tools and weapons, no more than a crappily carved rock that they used to cut things. They were only capable of killing non-harmless things like early forms of bunnies. Nothing that is dangerous, or an actual animal that is worthy of producing a sustainable food source like a buffalo. Yet these were the dominant species in the world. Why? This is because they were the only type of life form then capable of these things that seem so simple to us. Then, when the Cro-Magnons came to Europe where these neanderthals had previously roamed, they were out-numbered and out-matched. They just plainly weren't as developed as the newly evolved Cro Magnons.