For a time, we shared the stage with our distant cousins, Neanderthal, who clearly had some spark of awareness, but -- whether it was the increase in the size of the brain, or the development of language, or some other evolutionary catalyst -- we quickly left Neanderthal gasping for survival.
Neko vrijeme dijelili smo pozornicu s dalekim rođakom neandertalcem koji je sasvim izvjesno imao neku iskru svijesti, ali, bilo zbog porasta veličine mozga ili razvoja jezika ili pak nekog drugog evolucijskog katalizatora, ubrzo smo neandertalca ostavili da se bori za opstanak.