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To: Sentis
Humans are very promiscuous and even if it was just rape on one side or the other it most likely happened much more than once in the thousands of years of Human Neanderthal interaction.

For all we know Neanderthals were not promiscuous at all and only had sex when the female was 'in heat' as do all extant primates except humans and bonobos. Moreover, for all we know the impulse to "rape" was inconceivable to a Neanderthal. ]

Do you know? No. You are just typically imagining that Neanderthals are nothing but humans with a brow ridge.

156 posted on 08/13/2006 6:47:05 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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To: AntiGuv

I believe if you read what I had written correctly you would see that I said Human Being have a proclivity towards rape and I suggested that Neanderthals could also (but there was no certainty). The fact that most female Neanderthals were as strong as Human males is not an argument in and of itself in any given population you have extremes of physicality from People built like Line backer to people built like Hobbits. The same is true of Neanderthals they just scale to a generally larger frame.


160 posted on 08/13/2006 7:13:00 PM PDT by Sentis
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To: AntiGuv

You seem to have an agenda and want to pigeon hole me into having the opposite agenda. I care if Neanderthal and humans interbred only in relation to the fact that it is of scientific interest and I would like to know. I believe they did in fact, I even believe that Neanderthals are merely homo sapiens that are cold adapted and not a separate species at all. That is my opinion on this subject.
and i state my opinion as opinion and am not trying to convince anyone here my opinion is fact. You might want to check if you are trying to convince other that your opinion is fact.


Your opinion is that in thousands upon thousands of years of Human-Neanderthal interaction that no sexual relationships occurred. I think your a bit myopic in that view. Hell in the 8-9 thousand years goats and sheep have been domesticated Humans have had sexual relationships with them and I seem to recall a Roman Emperor who married a Horse.


161 posted on 08/13/2006 7:20:57 PM PDT by Sentis
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