Beginning this year, the city will rely heavily on a test that mostly assesses spatial thinking skills and uses almost no words or language.

WSJ: City Defends Gifted-and-Talented Program Policy

Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.

WSJ: Neanderthals: Why Us and Not Them?