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Was it an intentional genocide? Or was it repetitions of human/neanderthal clashes that resulted in us wiping out male neanderthals and breeding with the female
by ericmcer 3y ago
Was it an intentional genocide? Or was it repetitions of human/neanderthal clashes that resulted in us wiping out male neanderthals and breeding with the females until their genetic contribution got reduced to current levels (~2% on the high end). I guess technically we are still slowly killing them off every time someone with a high % procreates with someone who has none.
- Jensson 3y agoEvidence points towards the opposite, Neanderthal males bred with us but Neanderthal females didn't. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC368159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC368159/ We don't know why, but that would suggest we didn't conquer them, maybe our males didn't find their females attractive enough to have sex with. Neanderthals are more masculine looking than us, so their males would be attractive, but their females maybe looked too much like males to us.
- slashdev 3y agoOr maybe it means it wasn’t consensual.
- sokoloff 3y ago> maybe our males didn't find their females attractive enough to have sex with That seems like an extraordinarily unlikely hypothesis, given the mating behavior I observe to be a close analog to the USPS Flat Rate service: "If it fits, it ships!"
- mharig 3y agoDo you know the thing with horses and donkeys?