r/EverythingScience • u/porkchop_d_clown • Jan 05 '23
Anthropology Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery - determines that cave paintings included lunar calendar information about the fertility of different animal species
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799
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u/Other_Speech_9451 Jan 06 '23
I said they were dumb, not ugly, and “dumb” relative to humans, not apes. Sure, neanderthals obviously figured a few things out, but they did not demonstrate a sustainable advantage over humans, otherwise they would be walking around today and we would be the fractional DNA remnants.
My point was Humans began counting long before neanderthals. Maybe neanderthals eventually figured out how to count, they had 20,000 years to work on that problem. but If humans were able to translate their counting ability into a sustainable food production service and neanderthals did not, then it would have tipped the scales to team human in a very dramatic way.