What happened to the hominid species that was way smarter than humans?
Over the past several decades, the number of hominid species early Homo sapiens lives alongside has exploded from Neanderthals plus a few pockets of dying, small stupid apelike hominids to a whole range of humanoids that might resemble something out of Tolkien– big ones, small ones, slight ones, hairy footed ones etc. But most of these species were either about our intelligence level to somewhat less. Yay, we’re the smart ones, we survived. But a new find in South Africa brings to light a new hominid species– one that probably had an average IQ of 150, which is considered genius level for us lowly Homo sapiens. Average. That means that the top half of the population would have made Einstein look like kind of a window-licking moron. So we’re not the smartest, just the most adaptable. But what happened to these super smarty pants hominids?
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