• grue@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

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

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

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      10 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.