• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Eventually we’re going to find remains of recent hybridization.

    Like, maybe not full 50/50, but maybe a couple generations later.

    That’s about the only way to narrow down a period where they cohabitated. But it’s not like it was a set period, I’m sure it happened off and on sporadically across Europe.

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        9 months ago

        We have traces in the modern population.

        I meant remains of a homind with like 10-50% neanderthal DNA.

        We can get a pretty good time estimate for when the crossbreeding happened with that. Which would tell us when they were interacting.

        We know it happened multiple times, it’s just any remains are rare so we might not find any that close.

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    9 months ago

    Two different species co-existing for thousands of years, and yet we can’t even manage to get through one election cycle…

    Very cool research though, I’ll be interested to see what new evidence is discovered to support this theory.