deconversionmovement: Neanderthals Had Differently Organised Brains Homo neanderthalensis is not a species to be dismissed lightly. They weren’t especially dumb, nor especially weak. Indeed, they actually had larger brains and denser muscles than we did. On top of that, their technology was so well adapted to their environment that they were able to flourish without drastically altering it for hundreds of thousands of years. It was just that good. So it would seem we have no clear advantage over them, which makes the fact we survived but they did not especially puzzling. Recent research argues this might have been because their brain, despite being bigger, ultimately had a more primitive shape. Our frontal and temporal lobes are a different to theirs and our olfactory bulb is larger. Could our brain shape have given us an advantage? Now, new information presented at the HOBET conference I recently attended lends further credibility to that hypothesis. Read More

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Neanderthals Had Differently Organised Brains

Homo neanderthalensis is not a species to be dismissed lightly. They weren’t especially dumb, nor especially weak. Indeed, they actually had larger brains and denser muscles than we did.

On top of that, their technology was so well adapted to their environment that they were able to flourish without drastically altering it for hundreds of thousands of years. It was just that good.

So it would seem we have no clear advantage over them, which makes the fact we survived but they did not especially puzzling.

Recent research argues this might have been because their brain, despite being bigger, ultimately had a more primitive shape. Our frontal and temporal lobes are a different to theirs and our olfactory bulb is larger. Could our brain shape have given us an advantage?

Now, new information presented at the HOBET conference I recently attended lends further credibility to that hypothesis.

Read More

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