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Its not spoken about openly, but there is a decent correlation between % of DNA from neanderthals and IQ
by ldjkfkdsjnv 3y ago
Its not spoken about openly, but there is a decent correlation between % of DNA from neanderthals and IQ
- cubefox 3y agoDo you have some reference? (I know that they had a larger brain. But if they were more intelligent, why did they go extinct?)
- BurningFrog 3y agoI'm 2.3% Neanderthal. We're not extinct. We merged.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoAnother aspect, is theres no telling how much that 2.3% matters. Not all strands of DNA have the same effect on how someone turns out
- davidmnoll 3y ago2.3% doesn't reflect what i'd call a merge..
- vanattab 3y agoSo do you only merge your code when you've edited more then 50% of your lines?
- fugalfervor 3y agoUnless neanderthals were 2.3% of the population at the time they merged. or, the populations were 50/50 and the humans were like, "let's bone the hottest 95.6% of neanderthals and kill the rest"
- cubefox 3y agoOther way round
- fugalfervor 3y agoI originally wrote the joke the other way round. When I switched the order I forgot to change the number back. That's all for today's episode of Inside the Joke
- mellavora 3y agoWho approved the PR?
- nobodyandproud 3y agoOver specialization perhaps. High calorie diet and starvation? Harder to cope in a warming environment?
- stephc_int13 3y agoThey are not really exctinct, they are part of our ancestry, at least in most of Europe and those who migrated from Europe. One possibility is that when Sapiens met Neanderthal they simply outnumbered them because they came from more fertile/hospitable lands. Like Google acquiring an older but smaller company.
- paulpauper 3y agolarger brain does not always mean smarter.
- nomel 3y agoI believe that all evidence points says that it helps.
- paulpauper 3y agoeven people with hydrocephaly? Neanderthals , although similar to modern homo sapiens, are not the same.
- nomel 3y agoI don't think it's useful to consider a rare (0.2%) neurological disorder in this discussion, unless you're suggesting that Neanderthals had voids in their brain matter. This would be an extraordinary claim, being unlike any other primate or mammal.
- precompute 3y agoFor humans, bigger is almost always better.
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- smolder 3y agoOff the top of my head, disease, in-fighting, or some other missing adaptation that made them less able to flourish and reproduce in as-high numbers.