Is that how people ended up with Neanderthal genes? 
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String is good for tying axes …
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“this creature that is very similar to us yet somehow is supposed to be too stupid to live”
So… exactly like modern humans, then.
Yeah, but brain size doesn’t necessarily correlate with intelligence, though. There were earlier, “more primitive” hominids with absolutely huge brains. The popular thinking is that hominids evolved smaller, “more efficient” brains at some point. (But, yeah, it all feels like a lot of tortured justification to support the self-centered, questionable premise that we’re the smartest.)
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Hmmm I wonder if they could tie a bowline?
“The Gnarly Man”, L. Sprague De Camp’s short story from 1939 posited something like this. A great story, too.
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The Rock Neanderthals never did manage to find the other five strings.
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