Until now, we only had fragments of these cousins. Now we have face. Studying our evolutionary development and our sister-species is one of my favorite aspects of archeology. We’re constantly developing new information.
Side note: look up the initial presentation of Homo naledi. The leading archeologist did a phenomenal talk a couple of years ago (I think in December). It was really an exciting presentation. But I’m also pretty nerdy.
I think it is more like tigers and lions. Neanderthal human hybrids were likely less fertile, particularly any hybrid with a Neanderthal y chromosome. This has gone extinct.
There are…less pleasant explanations for the extinction of the neanderthal y chromosome
True but those are purely speculative. The science showed that the Neanderthal genes associated with the testes (iirc) reduced fertility in sapiens
Interesting, I hadn’t read about that
We dont talk about that