> I suspect a lot of these "Neanderthals were more advanced than we thought stories" are actually "modern humans left Africa earlier we than thought." At this

> I suspect a lot of these "Neanderthals were more advanced than we thought stories" are actually "modern humans left Africa earlier we than thought." At this point, not even that is clear anymore, by the way. There is a growing number of things that suggest Homo Sapiens might not even have originated in Africa at all.