• purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
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    The most recent suggestion I saw is that there were just more sapiens when they started interacting. Interbreeding must have happened, but with new groups of sapiens continuously arriving from the middle east, the neanderthal DNA just got more and more dilute. Eventually “pure” neanderthals no longer existed.

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      with new groups of sapiens continuously arriving from the middle east, the neanderthal DNA just got more and more dilute

      I can’t tell if you’re being serious, or making fun of the great replacement theory conspiracy…

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        It is considered true but the"replacement" took place over thousands of years and the neanderthal population was very small in comparison to the ones they were bedding.