For a time, we shared the stage with our distant cousins, Neanderthal, who clearly had some spark of awareness, but -- whether it was the increase in the size of the brain, or the development of language, or some other evolutionary catalyst -- we quickly left Neanderthal gasping for survival.
那些曾经居住在这片土地的遥远的尼安德特人 就拥有意识的火花 但是，或许是因为脑容量的增加 或者是语言的发展 或者是因为其他进化的原因 我们迅速地脱离了为生存而挣扎的尼安德特人。