[Vanders9]

Ah, not so. Neanderthals brains might have been larger, but that does NOT neccesarily mean they were smarter. People with large brains now may be either smart or stupid. Size of brain does not seem to equate with intelligence. The extra brain capacity of Homo Neanderthalis was mostly in the rear lobes i.e. those bits concerned with memory, not reasoning.

And objectively, if Neanderthals were smarter than modern Homo Sapiens, then why did they die out? Surely if they were smarter, they would have been able to outcompete us?

[muawiyah]

Having more and better memory is always good.

However, brain size does matter even today. Let's say you are born without a brain ~ your life expectancy is going to be pretty short. Or, you could be like Joe Biden and have brain surgery 3 times, and you'll pay for even the slightest disturbances ~ and we can see that almost every day recently. Guy is deteriorating before our eyes.

The point of this article is that Neanderthals did not die out ~ they were absorbed into our current genome.

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