did prehistoric humans have the same intellectual capacity as modern humans?

Question

for example: if you were to kidnap a prehistoric human baby and give it an education, would it be as smart as a regular human?

In: Biology

Answer 1

kurzgesagt did an episode about this and the answer was you could go back about 70,000 years and kidnap a baby and they would grow up normal. Any further back and they might lack specific gene mutations for developing complex language.