Re: Did Homo Sapiens and Neanderthaler rape each other during war?

From: Day Brown (daybrown_at_hypertech.net)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:57:31 -0500

Martyn Harrison wrote:
> There is no real question about whether Hns were genetically distinct to Hss,
> because they had some striking differences, e.g. birth strategy in one is to
> have hips wide enough to pass the large cranium of a sapiens baby through.
>
> The other have a short gestation period so the infant is born "prematurely"
> before the cranium has grown too large and hard.
>
> This basically comes about because Hns and Hss were not breeding with each
> other for a significantly long time.
>
> Whether or not they were able to interbreed at any stage during their
> co-existence is one thing, but there is obviously a long period where they
> didn't, maybe the better question is why they started trying again in Spain.
> <deletes "Fawlty Towers" joke again>
Maybe its cause guys are the ones who write about this issue. But it
should be obvious to even them, that if an HNS male mated with an HSS
female, her wider hips would have been able to safely deliver the
hybrid, whereas the HNS female wouldda died in childbirth, not being
able to pass the larger cross section HSS skull. (note however, that the
HNS skull is long like a football, and commonly had a *larger* caranial
capacity.)

And- had that been going on, then the HNS mtDNA lines would mostly
disappear. Which is exactly what Sykes, 'The Seven Daughters of Eve'
found, to wit, that unlike other parts of the world which have scores
and perhaps even 160 mtDNA lines, there are only 7 Native European
female lines. Why? And if not the above, then why else?

There is the economic argument as well. The Neanderthal knows where the
game will be when, the Cro-Magon's weapons kill it, and the Neanderthal
ox carries the meat back to the group. Deliberate genocide would not be
a good idea.

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