Cro-Magnons or anatomically modern humans, replaced the Neanderthal populations. They were significantly taller than other human species and their average height for both sexes was higher, falling in the very tall individual category.
And it turns out, that's not what happened after all. What a surprise. This kind of wacky cryptoracist BS is found throughout the Replacement model scribbling. Cro-Magnon (and "anatomically modern humans") were "gracile" while everyTHING that came before was "robust" "clumsy" "unable to [fill in the blank]" "doomed to extinction". Even the discussions about Neandertal tend to get steered into the "mystery of why *it* went extinct". The whole thing is creepy, but serves as a nice example of what happens when purported scholars and scientists have to consent to a political model.
The most ridiculous examples are found on each side the topic -- the jackass (died of cancer) in Stanford I think it was who referred to Neandertals as "village idiots" and condemned the morphological approach (as opposed to his nice clean, new-world-order approach of DNA-based research) as being constrained to not ask certain questions (not including the whole, why do we use morphological approach to differentiate different species in the first place, duh); and most of the top dogs in the state-controlled top-down European academic world who claimed that Neandertals and "anatomically modern humans" couldn't have had kids together, even after the DNA showed that, uh, yeah they did. The fact that, on average, much of the Earth's population carries Neandertal DNA in a somewhat greater quantity that it carries the DNA of each of their great-great-great-great-grandcestors shows that most of the genetic basis must have been Neandertal.
“...Cro-Magnon (and “anatomically modern humans”) were “gracile” …”
Didn’t they all look like Darryl Hannah?
Read your reply about the morphology/DNA stuff and a question popped into my noggin.
Looking at the wide range of human variations in localized morphology and DNA today, might it be that neanderthal and cro-magnon were the same just separated by distance long enough to develop differently?
Today, differences in skull shape can be used to identify which race a skeleton belongs to. We’re breaking down human migration histories by DNA changes and flows.
Might it be that the Cro and Neander pops spent enough time apart that they developed a greater degree of differences before coming back together?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
And for early human species, in the Altai Denisova Cave complex they have found the proof of this much more likely theory of course.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190926073340.htm
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-have-some-idea-of-when-the-mysterious-denisovans-walked-the-earth
Have you read Austin Whittall’s take on this?
https://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2019/09/super-archaic-hominin-admixture-with.html