If you start at the beginning of this thread and read through, you'll see we were puzzling over whether or not Neandertals interbred with Cro-Magnons. And if not, why not.
In that context, I was saying that a concern over bloodline purity could not have been a factor, around 30,000 years ago.
I was not talking about the physical protection of individual females from general dangers of everyday life.
I've been posting to this thread since nine this morning so I'm too tired to go over it all.
And I was reading the thread since about 9 yesterday morning. :-) Just because I wasn't active in the discussion doesn't mean I don't have a grasp of what is being discussed.
Your point is most likely correct that the Neanderthals an Cro-Magnons did not have and understanding that sex=babies so most likely they did not have town council meetings about how to protect the bloodlines. I wasn't talking about dangers of everyday life either, since the discussion was about interbreeding. What I simply proposed is the instinctual part of every living creature to carry on its bloodline, whether on a conscious level or not. That is probably the second most powerful instinct after the instinct to stay alive. In any group of animals males spar to win the females and be the grand poopa of the gene pool. Why do we find this everywhere in the animal kingdom, including humans, and we would not have found it in the Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon? What you are saying is that they would not have protected their females in order to insure a pure bloodline. What I am saying is that whether they were consciously doing so, which is improbable, this was most likely going on at a very instinctual level.
Your posts have been very interesting and I've truly enjoyed following this thread! :-)