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Neanderthal women were not as appealing once the human chicks showed up?
It’s rather strange how we sort other creatures into species, sub-species etc., but we only have ONE homo-sapiens.
Take cows, for instance: why Friesians, Guernseys and Jerseys??? They all have four legs and hairy coats.
Perhaps we should sort ourselves out by hair/eye/skin color, height, weight and attitude.
Then we might understand how Neanderthals got absorbed and their features subsumed.
They were absorbed.
There is plenty of Neanderthal DNA in Homo Sapiens.