• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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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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          3 months ago

          This… doesn’t really match my understanding.

          IIRC there wasn’t any real trend. Men and women of either species interbred.

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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.