OMG....there was interbreeding between neanderthals and modern humans??? What the heck was going on when the various people met each other?????
And did modern humans overwhelm Neanderthals in the gene pool, so that Neanderthal traits became recessive genes??
Interesting.
“What the heck was going on when the various people met each other?????”
http://www.thetimecapsule.com/folders/Joe%2065/1110LOBBY172.jpg
In conflicts among humans, it is common to take female captives as sex slaves. I would imagine that, before modern humans wiped out the Neanderthals, they kept some of the more attractive women and they produced children.
“And did modern humans overwhelm Neanderthals in the gene pool, so that Neanderthal traits became recessive genes??”
There’s some speculation (reasonable) that Neanderthal genes contributed to immune system development in humans in the areas they lived.
