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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 97 points 2 weeks ago (41 children)

I...I can't tell if this is commentary about now or not. Is that bad?

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (18 children)

I first read it as neanderthals are less aggressive so they must focus now on weapons. I'm pretty sure the intention is that the guys working on the wheel have to stop because the current leadership are neanderthals.

I think neanderthals were less war-like than humans because humans eradicated all of them, but I'm probably reading too much into it.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

I think neanderthals were less war-like than humans because humans eradicated all

Akchually, Neanderthals were humans and we don't know why they disappeared. The idea that homo sapiens eradicated them all is probably a wrong one; their decline begun before the arriving of homo sapiens.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The most recent suggestion I saw is that there were just more sapiens when they started interacting. Interbreeding must have happened, but with new groups of sapiens continuously arriving from the middle east, the neanderthal DNA just got more and more dilute. Eventually "pure" neanderthals no longer existed.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

with new groups of sapiens continuously arriving from the middle east, the neanderthal DNA just got more and more dilute

I can't tell if you're being serious, or making fun of the great replacement ~~theory~~ conspiracy...

[–] Mirror Giraffe@piefed.social 17 points 2 weeks ago

It is considered true but the"replacement" took place over thousands of years and the neanderthal population was very small in comparison to the ones they were bedding.

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