Re:Fragment of a human face aged over one million years disc...
by dyauspitr on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @01:06PM
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Interbred is putting it mildly. More like killed the men and raped all the women. This was repeated again with the Yamnaya from the Caucasus a few millennia ago where they again killed all the men and raped all the women.
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Re:Fragment of a human face aged over one million years disc...
by im3w1l on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @01:33PM
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How certainly do we actually know that? If the evidence you claim is that there are no Y-chromosomes from other hominids, an alternative explanation could be that hybrids with Y-chromosomes from other hominids did exist, but disappeared gradually over the centuries/millenia either because they were less fit or through pure chance.
Are there any now living people with mt-dna from other hominids?
Having a minority non-autosomal genotype could be an issue as there might be recurring "compatibility problems", given that the autosomal dna would mainly evolve to work with the majority mtdna and ydna.
Re:Fragment of a human face aged over one million years disc...
by ginko on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:13PM
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The genetic evidence points into the other direction:
> There is considerably less Neanderthal ancestry on the X-chromosome compared to the autosomal chromosomes, which similarly suggests that admixture with modern humans was primarily the result of mating between modern human females and Neanderthal males.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genetics#Parentage