#what they were was for the most part more inbred than homo sapiens sapiens tho due to living in smaller groups and it likely lead to them | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

magnoliamyrrh · 1 year ago

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makes me happy that tumblr for a long time now has been on the "neanderthals were people too" train because they were! and they were humans! so were denisovans! we were able to successfully have offspring meaning they very much were a subsect of homosapiens! theyre basically our ancestral cousins. they werent stupid they were people with culture and hopes and wants and beauty just like we are

#what they were was for the most part more inbred than homo sapiens sapiens tho due to living in smaller groups and it likely lead to them #having some genetics issues oops #and interestingly while we did successfully breed making us the same species it did some w some issues because we werent that closely #related species wise anymore #per example the offspring which passed on their genes retained the homo sapien sapien Y chromosome makeup because the neanderthal #Y chromosome was making them infertile #or if not infertile making them less fertile

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