[kuprel]

What if they’re even older than 11.5ky? Neanderthals had larger brains and have been around for half a million years

[spookie]

Larger brains don't mean a whole lot. Look at crows. If you do question they do have relatively big brains for their size... That's completely fair. Still, current research still hasn't proven if it's indeed causal, and not just correlated.

[jvanderbot]

Well that'd be quite unexpected and surprising, I'd say!