When did you take the early homo pill and realise that neanderthals were actually superior to homo sapiens...

Did you know Neanderthals inbred a lot?
>half Neanderthals
Not more like 5% Neanderthals in non-african genomes
>abbos
>Neanderthal

H.Sapiens has a smaller brain but also a more efficient one. If brain size correlated to intelligence, Blue whales would be the smartest creatures to have ever existed.

Neanderthals had larger brains which made them expert ambush hunters. Ever try to sneak up on a deer and stab it with a spear? It’s virtually impossible for us, as we prefer to hunt the way our savannah walking ancestors hunted: stalking down the prey and shooting it with missiles.

But one thing H.Sapiens was noticeably better at were social interactions. Not only is their brain hardwired for it, but their vocal cords allow for an insane range of sounds. This allowed far larger numbers of them to congregate, and really get the ball rolling on speech and the things that come from it, like art and organization. The Neanderthal dependence on meat not only made it impossible for there to be large numbers of them, but it also tied them to the land: where H.Sapiens were like wolves who could go be a stalker in any biome, so when their climate changed repeatedly they became creatures adapted to change itself. When Neanderthals lost the dense underbrush of the primeval forest, they died out.

Sometime around 20,000-30,000 years ago, all human populations started to lose brain mass. Our average used to be 1500cc. The fact that Aboriginals lost some doesn't surprise me at all.

They actually do have some Neanderthal DNA too. The fact that they have Denisovan DNA could possibly be either from a southern populations of Denisovans in Asia, or maybe Aboriginal Australians weren't the first hominins in Australia.

So basically user, Homo sapiens was and still is the Jack of All Trades, while Neanderthals were the Master of One. I always wondered why they didn't flee to Northwest Africa as they were in the Gibraltar region of Spain around 28,000 years ago, but maybe that's why.

There's been a lot of research and discovery recently that shows that neanderthals were probably quite smart, advanced tools have been found and we know they created a type of glue for example. The popular idea of dumb brute neanderthals is quite out of date

No one is saying that they were retarded, but we're saying that they were about as smart as us.

kek

Look at it this way: H. Sapiens hunted like wolves, stalking their prey and outlasting them in an endurance race. That’s the reason why H.sapiens has a historic friendship with dogs, our lifestyles are conducive and when working as a pair we complement each other’s hunting style. And the more members of your stalking party, the better your chances of success, so it paid to be highly social. Also note that you get wolves and/or dogs in virtually every biome, stalking doesn’t really require specific terrain, so that’s why H.sapiens thrived all over the globe

Neanderthals hunted more like tigers: hiding in the underbrush waiting for prey to walk too close and then ganking them before they knew what hit them. Because there’s fewer of them they get more meat to themselves and can grow to become more muscular, but that also places limits on how many can inhabit a single area, which is compounded by the lack of evolutionary pressure on them to be more social. Also like tigers, they’re dependent upon underbrush in which to hide, take that away and the Neanderthal’s options for hunting with a thrusting spear are limited to the point of being a death sentence.

This

Your reasoning doesn't make any sense, because what were *our* ancestors doing 500K years then?

My understanding is everyone was beating out dumbshit little chisels at approximately the same rate until we up and killed everyone else and apparently fucked their women.

>dies out because of cold
>superior to the ones who invented jackets, buttons and snow rackets, and then colonize the world, while fighting the Würm

are you being purposfully dense

How the fuck do you know how Neanderthals hunted?

Also the social abilities developed because the children needed to be looked for for a long time, not because "we gun hunt together".