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maybe the neanderthals were more advanced in some aspects? who knows? just dont know why everyone thinks neo's were 'primitive'. maybe they werent as aggressive
by globalnode 3y ago
maybe the neanderthals were more advanced in some aspects? who knows? just dont know why everyone thinks neo's were 'primitive'. maybe they werent as aggressive as sapiens and thus didnt survive contact with us.
- jojobas 3y agoThey had larger brains for one. If anything, having neanderthal blood is a rare peg for racialism to actually stand on.
- arp242 3y agoBigger brains doesn't automatically mean "smarter" of course. Women's average brain size is smaller for example. Aside: there's an "alternative science" that claims that Europeans descended from Neanderthals whereas Africans descended from Homo Sapiens. This is peddled by the sort of people you would expect to peddle this sort of nonsense.
- simonh 3y agoOh of course, that's why I wrote 'supposedly primitive'. Other commenters denied racism has anything to do with thinking some people are 'less evolved'. Of course it does, at least for a lot of racists, just look at the Romanian ambassador to Kenya recently recalled over making a 'monkey slur'. Racism is all kinds of different stupid.