Physicality:

Neanderthals were much stronger. While Homo Sapiens was utilizing a technique called persistent hunting(where you wear the animal down), Neanderthals were sprinters instead and were hunting with melee weapons. Pathology suggests they were fighting bears, wolves, mammoths and whatever the hell Eurasia had to offer.

Intelligence:

Big one. In order for two mammals to produce fertile offspring they need to be really really closely related. There is evidence that neans and sapiens mixed together. So do we really need to debate wether they were capable of cognition or speech? If anything I will argue that THEY were the more intelligent humans. Take the following into account:

Neanderthals were absorbed by Homo Sapiens 40-50,000 years ago. The “Great leap forward” occured at the same time. Coincidence? Maybe
Neanderthals had bigger cranial capacity. Amud 1 had a brain capacity of almost 1800 cm^3 which the largest ever found in a human so far. Modern humans have an average of 1300cm^3. Coincidence? OK
Populations that have a higher percentage of Neanderthal DNA score higher on IQ tests. Three coincidences are called a tendency.

There is also archeological evidence that they were seafarers, with their traces present on many Mediterranean islands.


Society:

Hunting related injuries were found both among males and females. There was likely no division of labour, so for all you *******s out there - Neanderthal society was egalitarian.


Pathology, DNA, paleoanthropology and archeology all suggest Neanderthals weren't buffoons as depicted in pop culture.

In conclusion - if you read all this, you should definitely get a life. I know I should

but who was Homo Erectus? Bigger, smarter and faster...they were the GIga chads

Touché

neaderthals were manlets, and birdcels, so according to misc

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humans beat neanderthals because the neanderthals had it on easy mode.

there's a reason the neanderthal Y-chromosome didn't make itplz

human river elves mog neanderthal dwarf kingdom

Manlet is hard to argue, but they were mainly beat because Homo Sapien arrived in Eurasia in huge numbers, while Neanderthals lived in small communities. They weren't outcompeted, they were vastly outnumbered

not sure if

^^^yeah that wouldn't be too surprising,

honestly, it would've been cool if they were around with the hobbit people

have a more literal lord of the rings thing going on

links below says otherwise

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence.../interbreeding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interb..._modern_humans

damn they were gay ape skull

Uh What kinda theory is that of course they have. The DNA evidence is clearly there.

who is the one who survived and evolved though?
/cucked

Well they got outcompeted by us and got eradicated from the face of the earth so that's that.