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Neanderthals were more peaceful than Homo Sapiens.
Did they have bigger
dicksor something?Pretty sure they actually did
This is kind of the best-case fantasy of what happened to introduce that DNA so let’s just hope it’s true for now.
Yeahhh… first thought I had when the DNA news hit was that this had pretty rapey vibes…
I don’t think there was a lot of consent on offer.
I thought neanderthal males were thought to be a lot less aggressive than homo sapiens (possibly even the reason for their extinction)? Even though I suspect you could be right. I think it’s possibly a mistake to apply how we are today to how our relatives were 40,000+ years ago. Also they might not have a comparable concept of rape if you go back far enough. So the personal trama, cultural implications, and psychological impact are possibly hard to analyze from a modern lense.
Gotta need a time machine for that
sweet neanderthal pussyinteresting anthroplogic research.
I’m something of a Neanderthal myself.
Er… I mean… Unga bunga?
So, how likely is it that neanderthals and humans just lived in tribes together, and neanderthals just eventually died off within human tribes?
I bet it at least ended that way.
They died out during the last ice age when one of the big differences from previous ones they survived was the presence of homo sapiens.
I’m guessing it was from a combination of lack of space, raids, and integration (willing or not).
We (who carry it) have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, but it’s not the same DNA for all of us, it’s pretty diverse, so cross breeding events between us weren’t limited to just a few times.
A trend that continues to this day tbh
Where do Neanderthal women be??
Replace with Neanderthal
Damn, that’s incredibly fascinating. And illuminating. Thanks for sharing!
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans
I recommend also using the Pubpeer extension on your browser for topics like this for more context as were still building a fuzzy picture.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pubpeer/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pubpeer/fmcdfigcdfkdghdklblbbpacikcchbbh?hl=en&pli=1
Check out Beforeigners - there is some prehistoric romance atuff there:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8332130/
(and the series are generally interesting)I thought this was referencing modern dating at first 🙄
How do we know it wasn’t the other way around?
a paper came out recently. it’s also possible that male humans and female neanderthals made non viable babies.
There is a few different potential reasons as well as sexual preference.
Genetic incompatibility - the interspecific cross could only occur one way.
Genetic bottlenecks in the neandertal lineage. A high inbred coefficient could have decreased the neandertal females overall fertility (high deleterious alleles load). This could also cause a rapid reduction in the percentage of neandertal DNA in a mixed population.
Maternal behavior - Neandertals females might not have cared for hybrid offspring appropriately. This could be for anything from milk production requirements to differences in physiological developmental rates.
I think the idea of there being health issues in certain types of mixed families is super interesting because that almost certainly would have been noticed and lead to certain cultural practices or taboos within both species’ societies.
