> Or was it more of a outcompete and outbreed situation? There’s a lot of evidence we more or less absorbed the neanderthal population. Old school tribal geno

> Or was it more of a outcompete and outbreed situation? There’s a lot of evidence we more or less absorbed the neanderthal population. Old school tribal genocide style – you win the war/battle, kill the men, take their wives. We don’t know if that’s exactly how it happened, but it stands to reason that pre-historic tribal warfare wasn’t much different than the more recent tribal warfare we do have records about. 1% to 4% of human DNA, for people with non-African backgrounds, is Neanderthal: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-an... (cmd+f for “interbreeding”) Mind you the whole “take their wives” aspect of human warfare is, uhm, pretty well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_sexual_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_sexual_violence