Submitted by nodeciapalabras t3_ylu0ir in askscience
nodeciapalabras OP t1_iv2uj2f wrote
Reply to comment by OperationArgus in Why don't we have Neandertal mitochondrial DNA? by nodeciapalabras
I liked this approach so much. We were simplifying it a lot.
Mrsrightnyc t1_iv2zher wrote
More likely as Sapain tribes moved north into Neanderthal territory they had less survival knowledge and ended up freezing or starving and the Neanderthals were more likely to take in the women because they were less threatening. Over time the hybrid humans kept mingling with new waves of Sapains coming from the south as the ice caps melted making their DNA increasingly less Neanderthal.
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