Chapter 10 response

Mark Sumner makes an interesting speculation on why homo sapiens survived when Neanderthals died out. I don't think that he is trying to prove a scientific theory so much as he is introducing a new idea. He doesn't adopt a serious, scientific tone--especially when he simplifies his theory about humans and Neanderthals simply to "I think we were sexier than them." But Sumner gets serious when he needs to be, explaining how humans and Neanderthals co-existed and how chimpanzee mating habits may help us gain insight about why humans survived and Neanderthals died out. I think that his theory makes a lot of sense. It was interesting to hear a different theory about the extinction of Neanderthals.