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Evidence points towards the opposite, Neanderthal males bred with us but Neanderthal females didn't. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC368159/ https

Evidence 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 ago
Or 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 ago
Do you know the thing with horses and donkeys?