"so easy, a caveman could do it"
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| Why humans won against neanderthals | Yuval Noah Harari and Lex Fridman |
| 2024-06-11 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #15 Harari is not a good guy. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-06-11 19:56 |
| #14 If you use NA as a model, a group who lived in the Stone Age until very recently and agewise much closer to us. It is evident the more organized, technologically advanced group prevailed. Not just against Neanderthals, but also Denisovians and however many other branches they will find in the bush. There is no secret in the sauce. When survival is your lifestyle infantesimal variation or technological advance can be groundbreaking or devastating. |
| Posted by: Jefe101 2024-06-11 16:56 |
| #13 ^ Whahaha... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-06-11 16:11 |
| #12 As far as sharing DNA, any visit to a busy Walmart should remove any notion that humans are 'selective' in who they reproduce with. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-11 16:08 |
| #11 My theory was that h sapiens had a better sense of time. Thus they could plan where to hunt and where to forage. Back in 2010, the sequencing of Neanderthal DNA was basically completed. Current estimates are that some 1-2% of the DNA of modern humans are Neanderthal DNA in Europe and Asia and the Americas but the percentage is much lower in Africa. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-06-11 16:01 |
| #10 The most convincing theory I have seen is Neanderthals never really made larger family groups. They stayed in small bands 8-20ish people and rarely traveled outside their territory. Modern humans on the other hand traveled widely, gathered in large groups (most temporary) and formed a huge trade and information network. It was the social side that pushed success for the humans and as more of them came in, bred and developed the land, the Neanderthals were pushed out. Small groups with no network died out as they couldn't breed with other groups and thus went extinct. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-06-11 13:16 |
| #9 All the mating was neanderthal males with H. Sap. females. "so easy, a caveman could do it" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-11 12:39 |
| #8 #7 An alternate hypothesis is more complicated. To wit. All the mating was neanderthal males with H. Sap. females. Male offspring of such unions were subject to negative selection. I |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-11 12:13 |
| #7 #5 That means means Homo sap. and Neanderthal could not interbreed (produce viable offspring) - cause there only two sexes 😁. As to "Neanderthal Genes", we share genes with chimps. In fact we share genes with bacteria. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-11 12:06 |
| #6 /\ But could they play RT ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-06-11 11:55 |
| #5 Gorm, the "fun-part" of Neanderthal DNA in humans is.. no Neanderthal Y chromosome (male) in human DNA and no Neanderthal mitochondria (female side) in Human DNA.. Perplexing... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2024-06-11 11:47 |
| #4 Incidentally, if Neanderthals & Homo sap could produce viable offspring - otherwise modern human populations would not contain Neanderthal genes - than Neanderthals weren't separate species. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-11 11:36 |
| #3 its all human imagination... no one can really know |
| Posted by: 746 2024-06-11 11:32 |
| #2 very interesting POV. I have never thought of it that way. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2024-06-11 11:24 |
| #1 I expect because Neanderthals bred true to their race, Humans did not. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-11 10:29 |