Insight into competitive advantage of modern humans over Neanderthals

EurekAlert! ^ | September 29, 2019 | Tohoku University

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-a64OwOYqU

[Track9]

I’m sticking with red hair, light skin and enhanced antibodies as positive genetic deviations to the basket weaving cultures.

[Bob Ireland]

***none of these is likely to be excavated now, for another 40-50 years. It took something like 30 years for the dig at Catal Huyuk to resume***

My point exactly. The Turks may be turning into ISIS re: destroying ancient artifacts and excavations. As to Catal Huyuk, I was going to refer you to http://alternativearchaeology.jigsy.com/catal-huyuk but the site no longer exists... an excellent pictorial essay. Wikipedia is good also.

Catal Huyuk is rather similar to Nevalı Çori if I recall correctly. We are moving the dates for organized agriculture back and back...

[miliantnutcase]

Well there had to of been very little difference genetically to interbreed with neanderthals. Look at how close some animal species are and they only create sterile hybrids.

[Max in Utah]

We didn’t out-compete them, we cross-bred with them until their phenotype became indistinguishable from ours.

Exactly. Compare with aboriginal Americans-- full-bloods are rather thin on the ground in the Lower 48, and it's only been 500 years since the first Europeans came ashore in Florida.

[SunkenCiv]

I was looking at this the other day; the dromedary (the one-humped camel, which we generally call the camel) and the Bactrian camel (the two-humped camel) have been successfully continually hybridized over the centuries:

https://www.google.com/search?q=camel+hybrids