For much of the last century, Neanderthals were portrayed as knuckle-dragging brutes, whose extinction some 30, 000 years ago was the natural outcome of competing against a more intelligent, creative and resourceful human species - Homo sapiens.
In other company news, 36 years after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin strode upon the Earth's only natural satellite, Schmidt's firm has launched Google Moon: A mapping service that lets homo sapiens explore the lunar surface from their PCs.