Yeah, well, it was late on a Saturday night, last call, and the Neanderthals began looking a lot better than they did earlier in the evening.
Went to bed a two with a ten and woke up at ten with a two!.................
Pretty sure the Neanderthal chicks could just take you, if inclined.
They had bigger brains and were quite a bit stronger.
What they didn’t have is a lot of sexual dimorphism and sex specialization, so they didn’t have very many kids live to adulthood, in comparison.