Did Neanderthals have better brain than Homo Sapiens Cro Magnon? Could be. Homo Neanderthal had a larger skull with 1600 cc brain and Homo Sapiens had a smaller brain on average 1400 cc of brain. What really matters for more abstract and sophisticated thinking is the surface of the cortex though. Neanderthals emerged as a specie about 800000 years ago. The oldest Neanderthal fossil is dated around 400000 years ago.
They went extinct about 40000 years for unknown reasons. Neanderthals lived along with Homo Sapiens for about 10000 years. They are a different specie of Hominids, Homo Sapiens did not emerge from them, they are just an extinct line of evolution.
Was Homo Sapiens superior?
Did Homo Sapiens eliminate them?
We do not know. Neanderthals lived on Earth for much more than Homo Sapiens, but they faced very rough climate conditions: a couple of ice ages. They had a very robust and muscular body and bones, they were hunters, they had a large nose possibly needed for intense physical activity. They were more agile and better in many ways than modern humans. 20% of the Neanderthal genome survived in us. They had high pitched voices and good vocal cords, they mastered fire and they left behind them artistic artifacts showing their ability to think at a level never reached by then by other species. Their tools were better than their contemporary modern humans.
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