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"Absorbed" implies humans out left finger emoji plus okay sign emoji'ed Neanderthals either by better game or higher reproductive rates. Perhaps Neanderthals of

"Absorbed" implies humans out left finger emoji plus okay sign emoji'ed Neanderthals either by better game or higher reproductive rates. Perhaps Neanderthals of both genders found humans of the opposite gender generally more attractive than their own kind? (Hybrid vigor hypothesis?)

simlevesque 6y ago
Out of curiosity, are you avoiding a filter with the emoji thing ? It took me a while to get it...
- rriepe 6y ago
  Let's see: outfucked
- _jal 6y ago
  To my knowledge, the only filters here are human.
  - threatofrain 6y ago
    Who in turn likely use automatic means to shrink the space of possibilities, but I really doubt the mods care about emoji.
    - airhead969 6y ago
      I have no idea. Binary never seemed to work all that well on HN and I'd rather people have to use their imaginations now and then. It's not quite 100 Years of Solitude but hopefully it's more like No Exit.
  - dredmorbius 6y ago
    There are some limits on characters which can be posted, notably various emoji and some Unicode charactersets. Though I did find an example of someone achieving bold text on HN (ordinarily only italic is supported via enclosing content in *asterisks*)[1] by way of some Unicode character points. That's frowned on but not explicitly coded against, mostly because explicitly coding against stuff takes time. HN uses a lot of soft social pressure for behavioural control. Largely to good effect IMO. ________________________________ Notes: 1. Backslash escapes seem a recent addition to that markup. They're automatically added in cases of unbalanced asterisk usage, which is how I'd noticed them.
- decebalus1 6y ago
  I just tried to copy paste only the emojis and my comment didn't go through. This current comment had the emojis but apparently they were filtered out. Interesting
mc32 6y ago
Isn’t there a claim that known evidence shows it was mostly Neanderthal females + human males that resulted in offspring and not much of the other combo?
- nobody9999 6y ago
  >Isn’t there a claim that known evidence shows it was mostly Neanderthal females + human males that resulted in offspring and not much of the other combo? There may well be such a claim, although I hadn't heard it before. However, IIUC, there isn't really evidence for Neanderthal genes in mitochondrial DNA[0] which is passed, unchanged, through the maternal line. It's certainly possible that at some point, all female descendants of female Neanderthal ancestors somehow didn't reproduce. Perhaps there was some incompatibility between human and Neanderthal X chromosomes? Or perhaps it was that Neanderthal males procreated with human females at a much higher rate? We'll likely never know for sure. [0] https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals/neanderthal-mitochondrial-and-nuclear-dna https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-an...
exolymph 6y ago
Dude you can just say sex

simlevesque 6y ago

Out of curiosity, are you avoiding a filter with the emoji thing ? It took me a while to get it...

rriepe 6y ago
Let's see: outfucked
_jal 6y ago
To my knowledge, the only filters here are human.
- threatofrain 6y ago
  Who in turn likely use automatic means to shrink the space of possibilities, but I really doubt the mods care about emoji.
  - airhead969 6y ago
    I have no idea. Binary never seemed to work all that well on HN and I'd rather people have to use their imaginations now and then. It's not quite 100 Years of Solitude but hopefully it's more like No Exit.
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  There are some limits on characters which can be posted, notably various emoji and some Unicode charactersets. Though I did find an example of someone achieving bold text on HN (ordinarily only italic is supported via enclosing content in *asterisks*)[1] by way of some Unicode character points. That's frowned on but not explicitly coded against, mostly because explicitly coding against stuff takes time. HN uses a lot of soft social pressure for behavioural control. Largely to good effect IMO. ________________________________ Notes: 1. Backslash escapes seem a recent addition to that markup. They're automatically added in cases of unbalanced asterisk usage, which is how I'd noticed them.
decebalus1 6y ago
I just tried to copy paste only the emojis and my comment didn't go through. This current comment had the emojis but apparently they were filtered out. Interesting

mc32 6y ago

Isn’t there a claim that known evidence shows it was mostly Neanderthal females + human males that resulted in offspring and not much of the other combo?

nobody9999 6y ago
>Isn’t there a claim that known evidence shows it was mostly Neanderthal females + human males that resulted in offspring and not much of the other combo? There may well be such a claim, although I hadn't heard it before. However, IIUC, there isn't really evidence for Neanderthal genes in mitochondrial DNA[0] which is passed, unchanged, through the maternal line. It's certainly possible that at some point, all female descendants of female Neanderthal ancestors somehow didn't reproduce. Perhaps there was some incompatibility between human and Neanderthal X chromosomes? Or perhaps it was that Neanderthal males procreated with human females at a much higher rate? We'll likely never know for sure. [0] https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals/neanderthal-mitochondrial-and-nuclear-dna https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-an...

exolymph 6y ago

Dude you can just say sex