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Neanderthals were a lot like homosapiens (in fact they could breed, and they did) They could paint cave walls. They had culture and social structures. They were destroyed by violent invaders.
My family has a high percentage of genetic Neanderthal ancestry. I think about my Neanderthal ancestors in passing.
I do hold a bit of grief that I will never know them, or our Neanderthal culture, or what happened. I will never know or understand their funeral rights. And I will never be able to honor them in a way they would appreciate.
Neanderthals only became extinct from earth a mere 40,000 years ago. But there’s new science that just dropped this week that our hybrid offspring existed and lived alongside Homosapien for much longer:
Some of us from the East have Denisovian genetics. They became extinct only 25,000 years ago, I believe.
Compared to all of humanoid existence— being alone as the sole humanoid species is the anomaly.
All of time and history up until modern history Homo Sapiens shared our earth. But as far as I understand, we have no modern cultural memory or history of our interactions. Only through our modern science and forensics do we attempt to piece together our real humanoid history.
Now we look to the stars and ask why are we all alone on this planet?
And I can’t help but conclude the same as you: We are alone because at some point…we decided to be the only humanoids.
the level of neanderthal ancestry in modern humans suggests they were destroyed by horny invaders
From what i read the replacement didn't even have to be particularly violent, there were just not that many of them to begin with in comparison to homosapiens.
Sounds like the story of how the US was founded, tbh.
It’s how every country was founded.
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All animals breed
I think they meant to say interbreed, ie, sapiens and neanders fucked each other. vast majority of humans living today have neanderthal DNA in them.