Did the cavemen die out or just evolve?

Why did we manage to survive when all of our closest relatives have died out? Many hominins once walked the Earth (Credit: Javier Trueba/MSF/SPL). To start with, it's worth pointing out that extinction is a normal part of evolution. read more

The cavemen that painted the beautiful animal pictures in the Spanish cave have survived, as they are our ancestors. And they did not evolve, we are still the same. The neanderthalers did not. That was one of the many not successful branches of the evolution. read more

And while theories abound as to why the primitive species, which lived in Europe for more than 200,000 years, disappeared from the Earth in around 31,000BC, none has explained why they died out and we didn’t. read more