If homo sapiens had died out for any reason thousands of years ago, leaving neanderthals as the dominant species on earth, would they have become advanced as we are?
Neanderthal Intelligence
Anthony Morgan
Nathan Robinson
Also, would they have been more peaceful or violent than we are, or about the same?
Lincoln Rodriguez
No since they had man boobs.
Ian Gonzalez
No.... go back to /pol/ Neadnerthals were less advanced than humans. They never developed advanced tools that humans did, and did not produce as many cultural artifacts as humans, and the large majority that are neanderthal are from after human migration into europe. There is only one cave painting attributed to neanderthals, and it's some fucking hand prints on the walls. During the same time, humans were making intricate cave paintings of humans, animals and rituals.
Aiden Jones
They adapted the technology of Hom Saps, suggesting they were intelligent. As to why they didn't invent much, they lived in very small bands of ~a dozen members, as against the large clans of 100+ of the hom saps. More brains = more technology.
Josiah Watson
Please stay on Veeky Forums pol doesn't want you, what you said was dumb
Cameron Cox
Haven't you noticed that those who look most like Neanderthals are often inbred morons?
Evan Hernandez
They copied humans. Population has nothing to do with collective intelligence.
Eli Nelson
More advanced. Neanderthal interbreeding with homo sapiens accounts for the higher IQs of Asians and Europeans vs Africans.
Aaron Taylor
Possibly, probably not. They matured much faster which narrows the learning window, or at least the period of being a sponge