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>The best explanation I've found is that Neanderthals were smarter overall
Although their cranial capacity is slightly higher, we have much less evidence of Neanderthal technological or cultural innovation than for Sapiens from 400.000-30.000 BC. An interesting example however: https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-uncover-hearth-neanderthals-may-have-used-make-tar

>have reliably been the work of those smartest among us who are the most disagreeable and unconscientious
No, those are exceptions like Newton. They are usually only disagreeable in the sense of having significantly original thoughts and views, but not in a wider, social sense.

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What do we know about the evolution of human intelligence after the speciation of homo sapiens? I've read a bit about how cro-magnons had a…