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Depends on how you look at it. We are descendants of Neanderthals (at least if we have European or Asian ancestry). And we are still here. It’s like dinosaurs,
by amanaplanacanal 2y ago
Depends on how you look at it. We are descendants of Neanderthals (at least if we have European or Asian ancestry). And we are still here.
It’s like dinosaurs, are they extinct? Tiny dinosaurs are chirping in the trees in my garden right now.
- xray2 2y agoI would not call 1-2% dna descendants. We are a sister group from which we share a partial genetic heritage.
- Qem 2y agoWhy did they get so diluted? Or does that mean they were just 1-2% of Homo Sapiens total population by assimilation time, so the original proportion was just kept instead?
- astine 2y agoThe dinosaur to birds comparison isn't a particularly good one. Birds are cladistally dinosaurs, that is, the common ancestor of all birds was a dinosaur. In that sense, there are no birds that are not also dinosaurs. That's not true with modern humans and neanderthals. A tiny amount of their dna remains in some human populations, but neanderthals are not the common ancestor of all humans. We are all descended from early homo sapiens and the tiny amount of neanderthal dna that persists is totally swamped by the homo sapiens dna.