No, no, you’re gonna love it: It’s all natural, baby
Woden-Wod on
likely it was just a numbers game.
Neanderthals likely had smaller disconnected communities perfectly capable of surviving and thriving but the early homo sapiens likely had much larger communities.
these clearly merged over time because everywhere Neanderthals were and homo sapiens passed through picked up key traits from the Neanderthal genetics.
I think the two extremes like some racial holy war between them or some liberal fantasy of love and integration are both farcical, it was probably a little of both.
like on one hand you have the weird freaky weirdos that live outside the village and are extremely tough and violent they also look instinctively different to most people in the village.
but on the other hand their hyper masculine features stronger bone structures look kinda hot and everyone knows how they feel with a nice pair of strong arms around them, and homo sapiens do have more food then them so it stands to reason for them to barter for food and goods at least, (and we all know where that goes).
It’s reasonable to assume both situations happened.
turtejdzoca on
Natural selection is not social darwinism, my good bud
onichan-daisuki on
I’m 0.2% neanderthal, you people have slaughtered my people /s
BrokenTorpedo on
doesn’t the newer research suggest that Neanderthals were not killed off, but bred with homo sapiens and got their gene pool utterly contaminated by overwhelming number of our ancestors?
SapphicSticker on
That gun should say copulation tho
Gow13510 on
We did not kill our cousin, we interbred with them and unintentionally make them extinct cause we assimilated them
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No, no, you’re gonna love it: It’s all natural, baby
likely it was just a numbers game.
Neanderthals likely had smaller disconnected communities perfectly capable of surviving and thriving but the early homo sapiens likely had much larger communities.
these clearly merged over time because everywhere Neanderthals were and homo sapiens passed through picked up key traits from the Neanderthal genetics.
I think the two extremes like some racial holy war between them or some liberal fantasy of love and integration are both farcical, it was probably a little of both.
like on one hand you have the weird freaky weirdos that live outside the village and are extremely tough and violent they also look instinctively different to most people in the village.
but on the other hand their hyper masculine features stronger bone structures look kinda hot and everyone knows how they feel with a nice pair of strong arms around them, and homo sapiens do have more food then them so it stands to reason for them to barter for food and goods at least, (and we all know where that goes).
It’s reasonable to assume both situations happened.
Natural selection is not social darwinism, my good bud
I’m 0.2% neanderthal, you people have slaughtered my people /s
doesn’t the newer research suggest that Neanderthals were not killed off, but bred with homo sapiens and got their gene pool utterly contaminated by overwhelming number of our ancestors?
That gun should say copulation tho
We did not kill our cousin, we interbred with them and unintentionally make them extinct cause we assimilated them
Bladletes and genocide
Nah we screwed them all into extinction