Neanderthal brain and cognition reconsidered
would have comfortably fit within the range found among modern human populations-which are generally not considered evolutionarily significant. In fact, the endocranial differences between Neanderthal and their contemporaries predict cognitive difference effect sizes of only 0.14 SDs or less. This undermines the suggestion that Neanderthal replacement occurred because of cognitive limitations.
Authors
- P. Thomas Schoenemann
- Guoyuan Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7864-3714)
- Ralph L. Holloway
- Jia-Hong Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-0297)
Institutions
- Beijing Institute of Technology (CN)
- Stone Age Institute (US)
- Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute (CN)
- Resonance Research (United States) (US)
- Indiana University (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2026-04-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426638123
- Primary Topic
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- John Templeton Foundation