Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ...
by mkoubaa on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:13PM
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My first thought was very disturbing, that they were bred by humans as pets.
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Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ...
by datameta on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:21PM
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We would see the heavy intermixture in one of the groups in that case. In addition, if one group was in homo sapiens captivity, then it is overwhelmingly likely that the other group would be found during those 50 thousand years (considering our propensity for migration).
Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ...
by danielbln on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:19PM
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Or slaves.
Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ...
by brink on Sunday September 22, 2024 @03:07PM
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Masters have bred with slaves since the beginning of history. Abraham and Hagar, for example.
Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ...
by inglor_cz on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:33PM
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You don't really need slaves in a hunter and gatherer society (no agriculture, no construction, no mining = no backbreaking work that free people are loath to do), and you don't really have the institutions to keep them from running away.
As far as our observations of Stone Age people go, if they catch someone, they either kill them or make them a permanent member of the group.
Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ...
by optimalsolver on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:39PM
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Neapets