A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species. As a result, more of their brains were devoted to seeing in
the long, dark nights in Europe, at the expense of high-level
processing. By contrast, the larger frontal brain regions of
Homo sapiens led to the fashioning of warmer clothes and the development of larger social networks.
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