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To: SteveH

Well regardless of what your DNA is, if your whole tribe gets killed off by the opposition that DNA is a dead end.


13 posted on 10/26/2023 11:31:17 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carceremâ„¢)
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To: steve86

Given how isolated the Neanderthals were in Europe before they had contact with anyone from the wider world in the Ice Age-and that they lived in smaller groups due to limited resources in a frigid environment-they were likely more inbred than than an Egyptian royal family, and declining in numbers by the time anyone else came along for them to breed with-their lower fertility rates got them absorbed by the more numerous H Sapiens-I doubt that wholesale massacres were the cause...


25 posted on 10/26/2023 1:33:37 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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