| ▲ | rayiner 3 hours ago |
| I can’t believe people are being so flippant describing this story (“sex life”) when there’s a high probability that the differential is because neanderthal males were raping homo sapiens females. Neanderthals had much higher muscle mass and were much stronger than homo sapiens. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| We don't know that, and we don't know that neanderthal males were more prone to rape than homo sapiens males. And it's weird to even apply the 21st century concept of rape to prehistoric societies. |
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| ▲ | bloqs 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have to agree, theres a bizarre and worrying internet-brained hysterical element to that original comment which betrays a totally absent education. the casual title is because of the scientific and prehistoric nature of the subject | |
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| ▲ | TimorousBestie 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | However, if one happens to be a race science type, there’s a lot of profit that can be made telling suggestive “just so” stories about which homo sapiens genetic lines are allegedly tainted with a larger proportion of neanderthal genes, or however that’s supposed to work. | | |
| ▲ | rayiner an hour ago | parent [-] | | It would be an afrocentric trope because it’s Europeans that have the most neanderthal genes. | | |
| ▲ | Qwertious 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | And because Europeans have the most Neanderthal genes, it's all "Neanderthals are smarter than we thought!" and not "are Europeans the missing link?" |
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| ▲ | rokhayakebe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Or that during the migration men died or were captured and killed. |
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| ▲ | lifestyleguru 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > the differential is because neanderthal males were raping homo sapiens females They were simply more attractive to homo sapiens females because of more chest hair, muscles, and better defined jawline. |
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| ▲ | TurdF3rguson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > neanderthal males were raping homo sapiens females. I guess you'd rather not even be here? |
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| ▲ | rngfnby 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Well, ya. Of course it was rape. And in retaliation we genocided them, hence the lack of Y and mRNA. |
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| ▲ | treyd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > and mRNA This might be seen as a bit of a nitpick but I believe you mean mtDNA (mitochondrial). | |
| ▲ | jyscao 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >And in retaliation we genocided them This is far from being the only or even main explanation to their extinction. The Neanderthal populations were extremely inbred, so I'd guess that was a bigger factor to their decline. |
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