> This suggests that humans socially dominated Neanderthals when they came into contact. Why? Is it because it is assumed that the dominant specie would steal

> This suggests that humans socially dominated Neanderthals when they came into contact. Why? Is it because it is assumed that the dominant specie would steal the women (who would spread these traces in the dominant specie)? Isn't it possible that the dominant specie would also just rape, but not steal the women? (which would presumably cause the opposite genetic "flow")