Yah, maybe because they ate them. I don't see how these "scientists" have enough info to deduce political structure from 40,000 years ago.
This reminds me of the discussions of interbreeding between Cro-Magnons and Neandertals. I think the right word is likely "rape." They didn't just meet at neighborhood mammoth BBQs.
lol. meet at bbq. lol
either way, reparations must be paid, to somebody, somehow
Now you've done it. I'm going to have to go fix a big lunch.
That’s rarely discussed but is a reasonable answer to the genetic data.
Why are there NO Neandertal Y chromosomes or Neandertal mitrochondrial DNA examples in the human population, while the DNA is clearly present?
One answer is that it was selected against, but this is unlikely given the one to three percent Neandertal DNA present in the population. SOMEONE would carry at least one of those if population mixing was going both ways or semi-fair.
An answer could be: Neandertal men saw the stronger neoteny traits in human women (lither bodies, large eyes in a flat face) as attractive and raped them, certainly possible given their greater physical strength. Humans had more variety in tools but were newcomers to the land; some women made it home, carrying a hybrid baby.
Genetic models show that just a few dozen times of this happening very early in the small population of humans who left Africa would account for the genetic distribution of Neandertal DNA.
So what explains the genetics we see, of no Neandertal mitrochondria or Y chromosomes?
The humans knew numbers were small. They killed the sons of Neandertal men, because they didn’t want to raise the rapist’s son. The hybrid daughters they kept, because they needed the breeders, keeping Neandertal DNA in the next generation but only hybrids with human mitrochondria.
In contrast, humans didn’t have a chance with Neandertal women who were far stronger, and/or the few hybrids that occurred that way weren’t cross-fertile or died out with the Neandertals.