> "Merged" conjures an image of living peacefully side by side and interbreeding for many generations. That seems to be what happened with Neanderthals, at lea

> "Merged" conjures an image of living peacefully side by side and interbreeding for many generations. That seems to be what happened with Neanderthals, at least at first. Incidentally any violence may have been from the Neanderthals because almost all of the genetic data shows Neanderthal ancestry from Neanderthal males and homo sapiens females, and not the other way around.