All jokes aside, I saw someone on YouTube video saying that a lot of male homosapiens interbred with female neanderthals, so I decided to look it up. And obviously the situation is more compliacted than depicted in the meme:
No evidence of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA has been found in modern humans. This suggests that successful Neanderthal admixture happened in pairings with Neanderthal males and modern human females. Possible hypotheses are that Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA had detrimental mutations that led to the extinction of carriers, that the hybrid offspring of Neanderthal mothers were raised in Neanderthal groups and became extinct with them, or that female Neanderthals and male Sapiens did not produce fertile offspring. However, the hypothesized incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans is contested by findings that suggest that the Y chromosome of Neanderthals was replaced by an extinct lineage of the modern human Y chromosome, which introgressed into Neanderthals between 100,000 and 370,000 years ago.Furthermore, the study concludes that the replacement of the Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA in Neanderthals after gene flow from modern humans is highly plausible given the increased genetic load in Neanderthals relative to modern humans.
As shown in an interbreeding model produced by Neves and Serva (2012), the Neanderthal admixture in modern humans may have been caused by a very low rate of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, with the exchange of one pair of individuals between the two populations in about every 77 generations. This low rate of interbreeding would account for the absence of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA from the modern human gene pool as found in earlier studies, as the model estimates a probability of only 7% for a Neanderthal origin of both mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome in modern humans.
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Easyest_flover on
I still believe the sam o nella theory that it were neanderthal men who were with homo sapien female while homo sapien male took whatever there was
DerRaumdenker on
“Just saw a neanderthal girl with a sapien, the neanderthal kingdom has fallen”
jonathanaahar on
sir, this is prehistory
paladin_slim on
Considering how Neanderthals are characterized as burly and stockier than modern Humans, is this the prehistoric origin of the Muscle Mommy fetish?
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All jokes aside, I saw someone on YouTube video saying that a lot of male homosapiens interbred with female neanderthals, so I decided to look it up. And obviously the situation is more compliacted than depicted in the meme:
Source for the quote:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210112-heres-what-sex-with-neanderthals-was-like
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans
No evidence of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA has been found in modern humans. This suggests that successful Neanderthal admixture happened in pairings with Neanderthal males and modern human females. Possible hypotheses are that Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA had detrimental mutations that led to the extinction of carriers, that the hybrid offspring of Neanderthal mothers were raised in Neanderthal groups and became extinct with them, or that female Neanderthals and male Sapiens did not produce fertile offspring. However, the hypothesized incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans is contested by findings that suggest that the Y chromosome of Neanderthals was replaced by an extinct lineage of the modern human Y chromosome, which introgressed into Neanderthals between 100,000 and 370,000 years ago.Furthermore, the study concludes that the replacement of the Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA in Neanderthals after gene flow from modern humans is highly plausible given the increased genetic load in Neanderthals relative to modern humans.
As shown in an interbreeding model produced by Neves and Serva (2012), the Neanderthal admixture in modern humans may have been caused by a very low rate of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, with the exchange of one pair of individuals between the two populations in about every 77 generations. This low rate of interbreeding would account for the absence of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA from the modern human gene pool as found in earlier studies, as the model estimates a probability of only 7% for a Neanderthal origin of both mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome in modern humans.
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I still believe the sam o nella theory that it were neanderthal men who were with homo sapien female while homo sapien male took whatever there was
“Just saw a neanderthal girl with a sapien, the neanderthal kingdom has fallen”
sir, this is prehistory
Considering how Neanderthals are characterized as burly and stockier than modern Humans, is this the prehistoric origin of the Muscle Mommy fetish?