New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @03:30AM from the new-yorker-redrawing-decades-of-cartoons dept.

ThinkComp writes "In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading. As articles about the research findings state, 'early stone tool technologies developed by our species, Homo sapiens, were no more efficient than those used by Neanderthals.' The data used in the study is available on-line along with a visual description of the process used."

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Re:Developing stone tools... by speedtux · 2008-08-26 05:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

From this I can conclude that monkeys are equally as smart as humans. I see an error on thier logic.
Turns out, the real advantage homo sapiens had was their use of complex grammar... although from postings like yours, you wouldn't know it.