Darryl, my understanding is that while considered quite intelligent, perhaps more so than H0mo Sapiens, the current thinking is that in some critical ways they were less adaptable. One way this manifested itself was our ability to live together in larger groups, while H.N stayed in much smaller, family groups that were much more susceptible to problems....like say being attacked and wiped out by predatory groups of H.S.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia