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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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Assuming they weren't idiots is a bit of a reach if they were our ancestors, or outsmarted by our ancestors
That's not how evolution works, though. Our ancestors could have very well been way smarter than us, but didn't have enough time to accumulate enough knowledge for significant technology advancement. Then in came us, reproduced like rabbits, survived better the current conditions, and bam. No more ancestors.
I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm saying that just assuming that "our ancestors were less than us" is also quite the reach.
Maybe 10,000 years from now, "people" will say that our ancestors (that is, us), were smarter than them, except for the whole fucking up the climate. Or maybe not. Evolution is chaotic.
There's some theories out there that Neanderthals were smarter than Homo Sapiens, but they didn't form larger social structures. That's part of our evolutionary advantage.