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"We thus have 50 millennia during which two Neanderthal populations, living about 10 days’ walk from each other, coexisted while completely ignoring each other.
by sorokod 2y ago
"We thus have 50 millennia during which two Neanderthal populations, living about 10 days’ walk from each other, coexisted while completely ignoring each other."
Nit: sexualy ignoring each other.
- create-username 2y agoThey were all trying to mate with humans?
- throw310822 2y ago> "This would be unimaginable for a Sapiens" I think it would be unimaginable for any mammal. 50 thousand years living side by side, being interfertile, and without a genetic exchange? It's just impossible. Something doesn't add up.
- sorokod 2y agoYes, difficult to imagine for any mammal, but humans are not any mammal and can go "against nature". Still difficult to accept.
- throw310822 2y agoIt's definitely not the case for modern sapiens, people have sex with anything, including animals and inanimate objects.
- sorokod 2y agoWell yes, but people also avoid having children till they are in the late thirties. We don't blindly follow our genetic programming.
- throw310822 2y agoPeople do all sort of things. Including copulating with animals and cutting off their penises to avoid copulating at all. The statement which I find hard to believe is that nobody for 50 thousand years ever did something. Especially when that something is completely in line with basic human (and non-human) nature.