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What if the genetic mutation in Homo Heidelbergensis in Africa, which in OTL lead to Homo Sapiens, never occurs. Heidelbergensis and the other hominids left in Africa eventually die out, sometime before 80,000 BC (lets say one of the climatic shifts caused by one of the advances or retreats of the ice sheets in Europe is more severe and snuffs them out).

Homo Neanderthalensis is left as the most advanced human species in the world, and eventually, when the ice ages end, inherits the earth, wiping out or absorbing the other remaining Late Erectus species in Asia.

What might a Neanderthal dominated world look like today?
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