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Thursday 10 October 2024

Neanderthals: Not Less Intelligent, Just Different

 There is no definitive evidence yet that ancient hominids were inferior to Homo sapiens in cognitive development.

Were Neanderthals really just recent ancestors who were surpassed by the smarter and more agile Homo sapiens? This position may be wrong, writes IFLScience.

Neanderthals lived on Earth together with early Homo sapiens and died out about 40 thousand years ago. It is early humans who are blamed for the extinction of the Neanderthals, although this theory remains unproven.

Recent advances in paleontology have allowed scientists to study the likely structure of the Neanderthal brain in more detail. What is now known is that the Neanderthal brain was about the same size as a human brain, but had a different shape....<<<Read More>>>...