Sex with Neanderthals helped modern humans survive, says study

[+ Avalon]

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/sex-with-neanderthals-helped-modern-humans-survive-says-study

[Derrick Rigg]

Interesting article. Thanks for sharing.

[rvwnsd]

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[Rudynate]

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/sex-with-neanderthals-helped-modern-humans-survive-says-study

 

 

It surprises me that we think of Neanderthals as a separate species. Under the biological species concept, if two populations can successfully reproduce, they are of the same species.

[+ quoththeraven]

It surprises me that we think of Neanderthals as a separate species. Under the biological species concept, if two populations can successfully reproduce, they are of the same species.

Or they are members of related subspecies.

[mike carey]

I think it's valid to say that if species-like populations can't interbreed (with fertile progeny) they are definitely separate species, but I'm not sure the reverse is true.

[Kenny]

This is a bald-faced plea for sex by the OP.

[marylander1940]

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/sex-with-neanderthals-helped-modern-humans-survive-says-study

 

You see... in some cases conquest, colonization and mass rapes are a good things (sarcasm).

[+ sync]

Perhaps it wasn't that long ago. Some of my former co-workers could pass for neanderthals.

[marylander1940]

Perhaps it wasn't that long ago. Some of my former co-workers could pass for neanderthals.

 

some folks because of steroid use (which they never acknowledge) could pass easily as Neanderthals.

 

[Rudynate]

I think it's valid to say that if species-like populations can't interbreed (with fertile progeny) they are definitely separate species, but I'm not sure the reverse is true.

 

The reverse is true. Google "biological species concept."

[+ Avalon]

How / where do Cro-Magnons fit it with modern humans and the Neanderthals?

[JayCeeKy]

We may have been better off if some lines of Neanderthals had gone completely extinct:

[+ Avalon]

I fondly remember the cavemen commercials

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEICO_Cavemen

 

And the tv show

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_(TV_series)