A portal opens between our world and a parallel Earth where Neanderthals became the dominant species with their own advanced civilization, enabling direct comparison of two human species' approaches to society, technology, and governance.
A controlled experiment in human nature: if a different human species built civilization, which features would they share with us? Relevant to evolutionary psychology, universal vs. contingent social structures.
Domains: First Contact and Alien CivilizationsSocial Engineering and PsychologyEthics and Philosophy of Technology
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-if
Outcomes: Ambiguous / MixedTransformative
Tags: neanderthal-civilizationparallel-earthhuman-nature-experiment