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Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests (www.livescience.com)
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[โ€“] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] match@pawb.social 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] kemsat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

This... doesn't really match my understanding.

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

[โ€“] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 3 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.