Anonymous ID: 3d83d6 Jan. 11, 2022, 7:24 p.m. No.15355237   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>5268 >>5309

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When the humans migrated from Africa, they must have encountered the Neanderthals in portions of Eurasia, and copulation had taken place. Based on the DNA analysis, it is apparent that every human not belonging to pure African ancestry has about4%of Neanderthal DNA in them (some even have Denisovaโ€™s DNA)โ€ฆ

 

There is a hypothesis that the Neanderthals are extinct because of their mating with modern humans.

Most of the Neanderthal remains found are of females. The male Neanderthals were strangely sparse and even the ones found had the Y chromosome similar to present-day humans. The recently discovered Y chromosome of a male Neanderthal who lived in El Sidrรณn, Spain, 49,000 years ago varies by a large margin from that of the Y chromosome of modern man.

This implies that the Y chromosomes were beginning to be paternally inherited in the offspring of a human dad and a Neanderthal mom. The human Y chromosomes began replacing the Neanderthal ones and ended up wiping out the distinct Neanderthal population.

So what happened to the offsprings of a male Neanderthal and a female human?

Female humans and male Neanderthal had trouble producing babies. The sperms of the Neanderthal contained antigens that elicited an immune response from the pregnant female human, causing a rejection of the fetus and ultimately miscarriage.

So male humans continued flourishing while the male Neanderthals, sadly, started dying out.

Today, most of us have at least 2% of Neanderthal DNA within us. None of us are purely Homo sapiens, except for those who never migrated out of Africa and that is utterly fascinating!

 

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/mating-of-humans-and-neanderthals-d5bcbb61c764