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  • 1: Neanderthals are also humans for the purpose you’re discussing, the results of higher cognitive functions. The label is actually applied to all hominins by anthropologists (note the nin and not nid)

    2: A lot of tribal cultures have historically had more female autonomy than women in industrialized or preindustrial cultures. There’s a lot of discussion about why that is exactly but this image of women as caveman chattel is just a lie


  • There was study that determined that the remnant neanderthal DNA in humans mostly came from neanderthal male and human female pairings and not the other way around.

    As others have pointed out in the comments that’s not really proving that the other pairings didn’t happen as often or even more often, there could be fertility issues with the opposite pairing and a whole host of other factors.

    It’s enough to make a silly meme tho