“Oh, like the female neanderthal slave keepers couldn’t “persuade” their male homo sapien sapiens to service them.”
They could, I suppose. But females are finicky and tend to pick high status — bigger, smarter, and The Boss.
No female wants to give birth to a dumb weakling.
Whereas the typical male will have sex with anything.
So I doubt this was common.
Indeed, the lack of Neanderthal mitochondria (which comes from mom) in modern humans tends to prove that it was Neaderthal men slumming with homo sapien sapien women.
Good points!