16.12.2024 16:57
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Is it? Or is it the proper response to European scientists' attempt to revive the late 19th century pseudo science of racial eugenics? Seems to me that they're the ones claiming that Neanderthals saved humanity. Only that statement excludes all ancestral Africans. Are they NOT human?
Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens diverged from a common ancestor about 500k years ago in Africa. Neanderthals then migrated to Europe and Western Asia. The European lineage is well established at 400k years ago.
Unless, of course, the Neanderthals had the innate propensity for violence and mayhem but lacked the intellectual ability to carry it out on a massive societal level. And it was that intellect that came from the Ancestral Africans that combined with their instinct to create the Hilters & Leopolds.
Preach!!!
Gotta love how all of these new "discoveries" about the Neanderthal DNA in Europeans is always attributed to things like "improved immunity" and "increased creativity and ingenuity. But never things like a greater propensity to things like oppressive colonialism and genocide.
But were human, never became extinct and didn't "need" Neanderthal DNA to survive in any of Earth's ecosystems. Just as aboriginal Australians didn't. But the article clearly implies that crossbreeding with Neanderthals was key for humanity's survival. So, are Africans not human?
The article goes on to say that present Neanderthal DNA is the result of crossbreeding with returning Europeans only over the past 20k years. Not that ancestral Africans crossbreed with Neanderthals.
The more I think about it, the more problematic it becomes. Either the article or the source material itself is written in such a way that the implications become a.) Only those with trace Neanderthal DNA are Homo Sapien or b) The only Homo Sapien group that needed to crossbreed were Europeans.
This is problematic because it only explains the "extinction" of European Homo Sapeins. No the populations that continued to live in thrive on the African continent. Who never crossbreed with Neanderthal populations. B
