Large Browridges And Large Occipital Are Not A Sign Of Neanderthal Ancestry

[Joso]

Let's throw down here the following affirmation:
Too large rhomboid occiputs and big browridges found in modern humans belonging to phenotypes such as nordid, brunn and the amerindian ones are actually just a product of Homo erectus or Homo hedelbergensis admixture, not from neanderthal most of the time.
The famous European hominins, specially the later ones, were going through a reduction process, aproaxing the shape of a ball at the extremities for cold adaptation and, as a consequence, their browrides and occipiral became relatively small.
Their temporals, parietals and minimum frontal also widenned( majority of their body parts shorterned and widenned), with that they obtained a brachycranial cephalic index( specially if we discount the browridges).
Neanderthals would also have frequently flattened their foreheads and occipital and thus would became even hyperbrachycephalic.
Do you think it is true?
Discuss.

[Joso]

In order: Homo erectus; Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis( though this neanderthal example was found on the Iraqian Kurdistan, it's not an European one):
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0517070024873192fa9e9e3585abeee3

[Columella]

I was reading this article
Which says that the Neandertal elongated (but I would add bigger, wider and flatter) brain case might affect the brain itself and the way this functionned

While these Neanderthal genes are thought to boost brain regions that allow us to visualize objects and use tools, the researchers say that this development may come at the expense of a cognitive deficit that may help to explain schizophrenia and autism-related disorders.

And a 2017 study by anthropologists at the University of California Davis said that our skulls changed shape when farming began in earnest. This is because it takes less effort to chew the softer diet of farmers, particularly dairy products, compared to a hunting and foraging diet, which makes for smaller jaw bones.

In 2018, researchers dispelled the myth that Neanderthals lived more dangerous, violent lives than humans, and another study used CT scans of fossils to reveal that Neanderthals may not have sported the barrel-chested bodies and hunched posture we see in museums and textbooks.
Source CNN.

The question would be most suitable for users Amud and Grab the Gauge.

[chociprasa]

I was reading this article
Which says that the Neandertal elongated (but I would add bigger, wider and flatter) brain case might affect the brain itself and the way this functionned

Source CNN.

The question would be most suitable for users Amud and Grab the Gauge.

Does anyone know what happened to Grab the Gauge?

[Columella]

Does anyone know what happened to Grab the Gauge?
Banned I guess.