Yeahhh.... first thought I had when the DNA news hit was that this had pretty rapey vibes...

I don't think there was a lot of consent on offer.

Replace with Neanderthal

a paper came out recently. it's also possible that male humans and female neanderthals made non viable babies.

Two ways.

First, sex chromosomes. In mammals, sex is determined by the sex chromosomes - males have XY, females XX. If interbreeding was equal between the sexes of both species, this would be reflected in the frequency of neanderthal genes on each chromosome in the current human population, but it's more heavily skewed toward the Y chromosome than we'd expect if equal pairing was true. This suggests a higher proportion of successful male neanderthal/female human offspring.

Second, mitochondrial DNA. While genomic DNA in a sexually-reproducing species is a mix between the parents, in most mammals the inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is purely maternal. This is because only the egg's mitochondria typically survive, though on rare occasion paternal mitochondria are also passed on. There is no known existent neanderthal mtDNA in the human population. This suggests either female neanderthal/male human crosses didn't happen much and/or didn't often produce offspring capable of further reproduction.

Of course, there are many other explanations for all of these. These are just amongst the simplest possible options, and in population genetics, it's not uncommon that the simplest answers are frequently correct.

I bet it at least ended that way.

They died out during the last ice age when one of the big differences from previous ones they survived was the presence of homo sapiens.

I'm guessing it was from a combination of lack of space, raids, and integration (willing or not).

We (who carry it) have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, but it's not the same DNA for all of us, it's pretty diverse, so cross breeding events between us weren't limited to just a few times.

They were probably just genocided like many other minorities in history. And since Homo Sapiens succeeded, everyone promotes how superior we are.

BTW, our genetics apparently just merged, but my theory is probably also true.

We don't actually know that. Homo Sapiens is on the whole a peaceful species, but we have a few assholes that like to kill and subjugate.

Just because our assholes outlived their assholes, doesn't mean that they were any less assholes on average than we are/were

Human genome contains significant contribution from Neanderthals. Because of the location of the neanderthal genes in our genome it can only have come from male Neanderthals.

https://apnews.com/article/human-neanderthal-mating-dna-chromosome-5bedad6998e5b397f28d5a0eaceb2a8b

Unga bunga bang bang

Pretty sure they actually did

You're allowed to say dick on the internet

What's with that dicks?

self censoring? on the libre internet? heresy