The Discovery of Neanderthals

We are travelling too slowly in understanding that what we did in 1788 is walk into the oldest continuous culture on the planet and decimated it. The discovery of Neanderthals also presumably falls into sort of eugenics and racist ideas. I was thinking about what would have happened if the sapien or the homo troop that got down through Asia to Australia had been Neanderthals. What would that have looked like? I guess the same. That would have been extraordinary, right? Well, I think we know what we would have done. We're very reliable that way. Yes, exactly. But with First Nations Australians, there was language exchange and... And it didn't matter.