The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

Why did modern man survive, while Neanderthals - his evolutionary relatives, descendants of an older offshoot of Homo - died out? Anthropologist Pat Shipman defends the idea that we owe the success of our ancestors to our predatory nature. Drawing on a biological understanding of invasive species that outcompete competitors, Shipman traces the devastating impact of a growing population of modern h...