Is there any non-paywalled link for this?
https://archive.is/9mQKV
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What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals
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Well, ya. Of course it was rape. And in retaliation we genocided them, hence the lack of Y and mRNA.
Re: What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals
#13Presumably this hypothesis is meant to explain why there is this observed asymmetry in the type of Neanderthal DNA we find in modern human populations that contain them, which is entirely autosomal. With none in the mitochondrial form, which is exclusively passed down along the female line, and also none in the Y-chromosome form, which is exclusively passed down along the male line. Without weighing on the validity o…
why no mitochondrial then?
Because these hybrids would contain mtDNA from their human female line. Neanderthal mtDNA could only be passed down by Neanderthal females.
And because none of those are found in any modern human populations, we can conclude no humans today are descended from female Neanderthals. Though whether hybridized descendants from male-sapiens female-Neanderthal pairings never existed, or they did exist for some time then eventually went extinct, we cannot currently say with certainty.
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Well, ya. Of course it was rape. And in retaliation we genocided them, hence the lack of Y and mRNA.
>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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#15Is there any non-paywalled link for this?
Any browser with reader mode should also work. Worked for me on Brave, both mobile and desktop.
Re: What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
why no mitochondrial then?
Because these hybrids would contain mtDNA from their human female line. Neanderthal mtDNA could only be passed down by Neanderthal females. And because none of those are found in any modern human populations, we can conclude no humans today are descended from female Neanderthals. Though whether hybridized descendants from male-sapiens female-Neanderthal pairings never existed, or they did exist for some time then eve…
> we can conclude no humans today are descended from female Neanderthals.
that looks worded wrong, strictly speaking. if there's a male neanderthal ancestor, then he very likely has a neanderthal mom or grandma or ... great^N grandma for some N.
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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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#18Is there any non-paywalled link for this?
I recommend the "Pass paywalls clean" plug-in
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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.
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