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minus-squarexylol@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·3 days agoEvery time I think about Neanderthals I just get an image in my head that they were smart nicer versions of us so they didn’t survive when we decided to just kill them all like we do everything else
minus-squarebackalleycoyote@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI hate to burst your bubble, but hominids are relentlessly brutal. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24460-3 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260411022044.htm And our cousins aren’t much better. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3002350
Every time I think about Neanderthals I just get an image in my head that they were smart nicer versions of us so they didn’t survive when we decided to just kill them all like we do everything else
I hate to burst your bubble, but hominids are relentlessly brutal.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24460-3
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260411022044.htm
And our cousins aren’t much better.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3002350