What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals

Post by jyscao » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 3:53 AM UTC

jjtheblunt wrote: post #16

jyscao wrote: post #13

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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.

Post by lifestyleguru » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:01 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #7

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:18 AM UTC

lifestyleguru wrote: post #24

rayiner wrote: post #7

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> the differential is because neanderthal males were raping homo sapiens females They were simply more attractive to homo sapiens females because of more chest hair, muscles, and better defined jawline.

Post by rayiner » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:25 AM UTC

TimorousBestie wrote: post #23

SoftTalker wrote: post #17

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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.

However, if one happens to be a race science type, there’s a lot of profit that can be made telling suggestive “just so” stories about which homo sapiens genetic lines are allegedly tainted with a larger proportion of neanderthal genes, or however that’s supposed to work.