"From a genetic perspective, humans beings are still pretty much identical to neanderthals who honed their instincts roaming the Earth for more than two million years."

Pardon, but I'd like to take issue with this. Our (collective, humanity) genome has been evolving faster and faster - to the point where a neanderthal who was taught english could probably not even communicate with you on an uneven level, much less an identical one - and this is from '07 - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071211-human...