[Citizen Tom Paine]

Lest we forget - Neanderthal’s brains were larger that H Sapiens. i.e., they were smarter. Another fact which hasn’t filtered out to the general public is that the size of our brains are decreasing over time. i.e., we are getting dumber.

[jda]

... we are getting dumber

Well, it's quite obvious the 43% of the population that are Obamanites who live off of the rest of us certainly aren't getting any smarter!!!

[Vanders9]

Ah, not so. Neanderthals brains might have been larger, but that does NOT neccesarily mean they were smarter. People with large brains now may be either smart or stupid. Size of brain does not seem to equate with intelligence. The extra brain capacity of Homo Neanderthalis was mostly in the rear lobes i.e. those bits concerned with memory, not reasoning.

And objectively, if Neanderthals were smarter than modern Homo Sapiens, then why did they die out? Surely if they were smarter, they would have been able to outcompete us?