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Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One

• zunzun 7y ago
  ... and the other eight were delicious.
• mc32 7y ago
  >”Yet the extinction of Neanderthals, at least, took a long time – thousands of years. This was partly because early Homo sapiens lacked the advantages of later conquering civilisations” Is it possible we “simply” outbred them? If one population breeds slowly compared to another one of them will be swallowed by the other and not necessarily primarily through violent means.
  • ncmncm 7y ago
    In principle, yes. But the record of History argues otherwise.
  • toasterlovin 7y ago
    The answer is probably that we were able to kill them because we were able to outbreed them. They fit into a similar ecological niche, so they would have been competition.