As a modern male, cannot confirm
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Neanderthals were more peaceful than Homo Sapiens.
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
hunter gatherers vs agriculturers say otherways. Mass of graves and the murdering entire family lines and clans and villages go back as far as humankind goes back. Homo sapiens are no different than any other animal—opportunistic killers like cows and horses are.
Yep, the relative lack of heterogeneity in the Y-chromosome compared to mtDNA is somewhat testament to that too, but those mass grave sites are late stone age. Neanderthals predate those sites by a large margin, so it'd be hard to say that they didn't necessarily follow the same brutal history against their own kin
If anything, our assholes outlivng theirs show we are more peqceful, because maybe they also had a type of asshole who got off on hilling assholes for the good of the peaceful group.
how do you mean?
I am.saying they maybe didn't tolorate their assholes living so long and killed them before they became President of the US etc.
Meanwhile, our collective pascifist asses let our assholes roam free and even went back to beg for more after a few years.
Ah! Yeah good point. We are way to pacified on the whole, and it seems like it literally just does take one asshole to push us around
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This is kind of the best-case fantasy of what happened to introduce that DNA so let's just hope it's true for now.
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.
I thought neanderthal males were thought to be a lot less aggressive than homo sapiens (possibly even the reason for their extinction)? Even though I suspect you could be right. I think it's possibly a mistake to apply how we are today to how our relatives were 40,000+ years ago. Also they might not have a comparable concept of rape if you go back far enough. So the personal trama, cultural implications, and psychological impact are possibly hard to analyze from a modern lense.
Sex doesn’t look very consensual for like 99.9% of other species…
Fairly certain even the idea of consent is part of what makes us human.
1: Neanderthals are also humans for the purpose you're discussing, the results of higher cognitive functions. The label is actually applied to all hominins by anthropologists (note the nin and not nid)
2: A lot of tribal cultures have historically had more female autonomy than women in industrialized or preindustrial cultures. There's a lot of discussion about why that is exactly but this image of women as caveman chattel is just a lie
From a very cursory Wikipedia check, hominini includes chimpanzees?
I might have missed something - you're saying anthropologists consider all hominins human? Including chimpanzees?
Gotta need a time machine for that ~~sweet neanderthal pussy~~ interesting anthroplogic research.
Clan of the cave bear vibes
Context?
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.
Unga bunga bang bang
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Where do Neanderthal women be??
Replace with Neanderthal
So, all those cartoons depicting cavemen dragging a woman by her hair were on to something. Time to write some caveman on modern woman smut!
And that's why we have romantic fantasy novels
I'm something of a Neanderthal myself.
Er... I mean... Unga bunga?
A trend that continues to this day tbh
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