[ExI] Neanderthals weren't exterminated - they were assimilated

[Anders Sandberg]

BillK <pharos at gmail.com> , 1/5/2014 11:59 AM:
In the past few decades, however, anthropological discoveries have 
contradicted those stereotypical views. Neanderthals actually had 
slightly larger brains than modern humans! 
Of course, brain size isn't everything. Here is an interesting interview with some hot-off-the-presses neuroscience about neuron numbers and how they relate to brain scaling: http://intelligence.org/2014/04/22/suzana-herculano-houzel/

Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University
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