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Some think they are stupid but we know they had 1700 cubic centimeters of brain volume compared to 1200 cubic centimeters for an anatomically modern human. It
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
Some think they are stupid but we know they had 1700 cubic centimeters of brain volume compared to 1200 cubic centimeters for an anatomically modern human.
It is possible that they were not that stupid and they were simply outbred by humans.
- inglor_cz 6y agoThey were certainly very conservative in their stone tool design. Mousterien tools change little over more than 100 000 years of their existence.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoThey also lived in an ice covered world full of lethal megafauna instead of a post ice age world with fertile lands ready for agriculture and smaller animals.
- inglor_cz 6y agoTrue, but was such a state of things an obstacle or an incentive for innovation? After all, with better tools and weapons lethal megafauna may be slightly less lethal for you.
- lostlogin 6y agoThere are various human groups that settled areas and didn’t make much technological progress for a long time, thousands to tens of thousands of years.