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alternate history poll: how do you think the world would be different today if the Neanderthals hadn't become extinct?

Posted by the brain (aka chris) Apr 11 '16, 17:46

would they be our feeble-minded slaves?

Responses:

Hunting's forehead would be sexy. - Mel Profit Apr 11, 18:38
They had larger brain size to body mass ratio, so they may have been smarter (or as smart anyway, it's not a hugely reliable measure). -- nm - mafic Apr 11, 17:53 2
- they would have felt the lash of our human whips! -- nm - the brain Apr 11, 17:54
- mafic is the smart one here, listen to him -- nm - budice Apr 11, 17:54
Your premise is a fallacy. - Mop Apr 11, 17:51 8
- NFL would be an order of magnitude more awesome -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 11, 18:37 1
  - this should have gone under the original post -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 11, 18:38
- (Not all of us, just those of European heritage.) -- nm - Roger More Apr 11, 18:27 3
  - Guns, Germs, and Steels, and Neanderthals. It's why Europe took over the world. -- nm - Mop Apr 11, 18:53
  - Go as far back as Neandertals and we're all the same heritage :) -- nm - Meg Apr 11, 18:35 1
    - i'll never claim those sloping-forehead imbeciles as my own -- nm - the brain Apr 11, 18:36
- I saw that on Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer -- nm - Bacon Apr 11, 17:52 1
  - but have you read Clan of the Cave Bear? -- nm - Beaker Apr 11, 18:34

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