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Why did Homo sapiens survive but Neanderthals didn’t?

Why did Neanderthals go extinct and we didn’t? The oldest Neanderthal remains are about 430,000 yrs old while Homo sapiens are estimated to have arisen about 300,000 years ago at most and 200,000 years ago at least. So this gives Neanderthals a 130,000 yr head start on us but we’re here and they aren’t. Not to mention Neanderthals lived in Europe which is a very good place to start a civilization. While Homo sapiens lived in Africa that has deadly flies that can kill you by biting you and very dangerous animals. Not to mention Homo sapiens are physically weaker than Neanderthals. A Neanderthal could probably take 2-3 hits from a mammoth while someone like you or me would die instantly. And they were just as smart as modern humans right? So think about you have a physically stronger equally intelligent species that lived for about 130,000 yrs before Homo sapiens. This doesn’t sound very good for Homo sapiens so what happened.
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Short answer is, we don't know.

They went extinct "shortly" after a wave of modern humans arrived, so it seems likely that it had something to do with us.

Could have been climate change, disease, being out competed, interbreeding, all of the above.