You do know that Neandertals brains were larger than Homo Sapiens ?
Size isn't everything. The prefrontal cortex is what counts.
Neandertals where more sophisticated than most people think.
Neanderthals Didn't Die Out; They Were Killed Off. That Is Our Duty to Evolutionary Progress.
Depending on whether the anthropologist is a ****** Hating ****** misfit and a total mind-slave to bitter academic Department Heads, fossil evidence can be misinterpreted because the false prestige of the universities makes the brainwashed public give such escapist bookworms the benefit of the doubt. The Neanderthals were no better than existentially dangerous and totally unfit wild animals.
What a way to talk about your relatives!!! Remember, if you're of European extraction, the % is higher than most other groups.
As much as 2.6% of your DNA is from Neanderthals. This is what it's doing - Los Angeles Times
Scientists are now saying between 1.5-4% for some groups.
Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA
Besides having larger brains, Neanderthals made the first known boats, first known glue, as well as many types of bone tools. The first evidence of Cro-Magnons using tar is AFTER they travelled to Europe. Scientists are saying that Neanderthal tools were at least, if not more complex than those of Cro-Magnons of the time. Their artwork was not as well developed and it is suspected that they were less social. So, Neanderthals were better at important things and Cro-Magnons were better at making beads and socializing and silly stuff like that. It is now believed that because of the harsh climate they were adapted to, they were far less numerous than Cro-Magnons and were simply absorbed into the gene pool.
Evidence suggests Neanderthals took to boats before modern humans
How Neanderthals Made First Glue From Tar To Make Stronger Weapons
Neanderthals were not inferior to modern humans, study finds
"The widely held notion that Neanderthals were dimwitted and that their inferior intelligence allowed them to be driven to extinction by the much brighter ancestors of modern humans is not supported by scientific evidence, according to a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder."
""Researchers were comparing Neanderthals not to their contemporaries on other continents but to their successors," Villa said. "It would be like comparing the performance of Model T Fords, widely used in America and Europe in the early part of the last century, to the performance of a modern-day Ferrari and conclude that Henry Ford was cognitively inferior to Enzo Ferrari."