• MangoCats@feddit.it
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    17 hours ago

    “nature finds a way"

    Yeah, nature’s way is: the rats win. That’s how we’re here and the Neanderthals aren’t.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      What? The rats fucked the birds until the species merged?

      'Cause that’s what happened between us and the Neanderthals.

      • egrets@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        That’s not the only factor in the die-out of the Neanderthals. Another is thought to be a massive reduction of the population and geographical constriction during the ice age, isolated communities afterwards resulting in little genetic variation, and thereby high susceptibility to disease.