• Glowstick@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    iirc this has been known for a while. We had sex with them so much that they stopped existing as a separate species.

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      4 months ago

      The ones we didn’t kill. The more violent killing species is the one that survived. Yay us.

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        4 months ago

        We have evidence of interbreeding, but how much evidence do we have of violence between humansnand neanderthals?

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          4 months ago

          Iirc there are no Neanderthal Y-chromosomes left, but there are X-chromosomes, suggesting we killed the males & took the females

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          4 months ago

          Nothing concrete I don’t think. But we do have many thousands of years of racial violence in our collective history so it’s not a huge leap of a guess.

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          I guess the evidence would come in the history of areas or sites where one group displaced another, perhaps leaving signs of a takeover. I have seen documentaries discussing the differences of the species, and how ours wasn’t the physically stronger, but our brain enabled us to plan and communicate better in a conflict or attack. I don’t know if that was based on evidence or just speculation using the characteristics we know of the two species.

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      4 months ago

      yes, and the article mentions it.

      if you are on the fence about reading - its a medium length, layman accessible, enjoyable read.