ooli@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 months agoNeanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggestswww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNeanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggestswww.livescience.comooli@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoThe ones we didn’t kill. The more violent killing species is the one that survived. Yay us.
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoWe have evidence of interbreeding, but how much evidence do we have of violence between humansnand neanderthals?
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoNothing 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.
minus-squarekemsat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIirc there are no Neanderthal Y-chromosomes left, but there are X-chromosomes, suggesting we killed the males & took the females
minus-squarefine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThis… doesn’t really match my understanding. IIRC there wasn’t any real trend. Men and women of either species interbred.
minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoMurder, Rape, Pillage and Burn.
The ones we didn’t kill. The more violent killing species is the one that survived. Yay us.
We have evidence of interbreeding, but how much evidence do we have of violence between humansnand neanderthals?
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.
Iirc there are no Neanderthal Y-chromosomes left, but there are X-chromosomes, suggesting we killed the males & took the females
This… doesn’t really match my understanding.
IIRC there wasn’t any real trend. Men and women of either species interbred.
Murder, Rape, Pillage and Burn.