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>>>...