Reviews The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived by Clive Finlayson Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Science News January 29, 2010 at 11:54 am An evolutionary ecologist argues that humans weren’t superior to other hominid species, only luckier. THE HUMANS WHO WENT EXTINCT: WHY NEANDERTHALS DIED OUT AND WE SURVIVED BY CLIVE FINLAYSON Oxford University Press, 2009, 273 p., $29.95.