Urb, deciding too little daylight remained for them to attempt scaling the vertical slope, ordered the Neanderthals back into the forest.
"Warrior of the Dawn"
Howard Carleton Browne
Here, too, were signs of the passage of other Neanderthals, and those of Vulcar's searching party.
"Warrior of the Dawn"
Howard Carleton Browne
I think something similar must have happened a few hundred thousand years ago, when Cro-Magnon man, our own ancestors, first developed true intelligence instead of the pseudo-intelligence, the highly developed instincts, of the Neanderthals and other para-men.
"The Penal Cluster"
Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)