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.
I'm hardly surprised. That is the most common reason why some people wish so badly for Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon to have interbred. Another common reason is the racial dimension that also popped up above from someone else. That's OK by me, but no matter what your motivation and no matter how intense your motivation there is still no more evidence of Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon admixture than there was before (nil).
Your opinion is that in thousands upon thousands of years of Human-Neanderthal interaction that no sexual relationships occurred.
No, that isn't my opinion. My deduction, to use the correct word instead, is that in thousands upon thousands of years of Human-Neanderthal interaction no meaningful genetic admixture took place.
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.
Sheep and horses don't fight back if seduced properly. Gorillas and lions do. Neanderthals probably did too. Get back to me when you find some stories of sexual relationships between humans and gorillas or lions that would've resulted in progeny were that genetically possible.