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How were we able to procreate with a different species? Are there other instances of this in nature?
I thought mating two species created sterile offspring (mules).
There are examples of 2 distinct species (with different chromosome count) creating (sometimes) fertile offspring: https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/when-hybrids-are-fertile-3/
But genetically the neanderthalers were far less different from us than those examples. Apparently all modern humans share 99.9% of DNA and neanderthalers shared 99.7% of that. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/are-neanderthals-and-homo-sapiens-the-same-species
So the no viable offspring rule might not be that good for differentiating species, but that also doesn't mean that neanderthalers and us were not the same species. The more I read on it, the more I think that we were. Apparently we interbred quite a lot over the millennia.
Is there any way to tell if certain gender-pairs were more common in interspecies mating between sapiens and neanderthals? For example, are we able to tell if the male partner was more or less likely to be sapien or neanderthal?
That just depends on how the chromosomes match A mule is sterile only because it has 63 chromosomes. A horse has 64 and donkey has 62. .
https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/articles/2007/ask225/
Its amazing what you learn for a school paper decades that sticks with you.
Well, this newfound knowledge could have us decide that Neanderthals were not a different species, actually.
Simply put, it's not that simple.
We call them MAGA now.
Neanderthals had greater social intelligence than sapiens. Why are you complimenting Nazis?
In an archaeology sub. Really. This is exactly why the US is so divided and why violence is your most likely outcome. Grow a personality and stop dragging politics into everything.
There's a fantastic youtube channel by Stephan Milo that does nothing but explore the origins of "humans" (in the very broad sense).
Iโve got a bit of Neanderthal DNA, and a lot of folks of Eastern European descent do as well. My ancestors were swingers, I guess.
iirc this has been known for a while. We had sex with them so much that they stopped existing as a separate species.
Resulting in me and my 2 percent Neanderthal DNA
Garrison would be proud. We truly fucked them to death.
yes, and the article mentions it.
if you are on the fence about reading - its a medium length, layman accessible, enjoyable read.
The ones we didn't kill. The more violent killing species is the one that survived. Yay us.
We have evidence of interbreeding, but how much evidence do we have of violence between humansnand neanderthals?
Iirc there are no Neanderthal Y-chromosomes left, but there are X-chromosomes, suggesting we killed the males & took the females
This... doesn't really match my understanding.
IIRC there wasn't any real trend. Men and women of either species interbred.
Nothing concrete I don't think. But we do have many thousands of years of racial violence in our collective history so it's not a huge leap of a guess.
I know a few