We used to have hominid cousins living at the same time as modern humans like neanderthals and denisovans. I don’t think there’s a consensus answer on what wiped them out, ecological changes over the last ice age reducing the availability of resources that they couldn’t adapt to maybe, or prehistoric wars maybe and only the most vicious and violent hominid group survived, or some combination of changes and fighting and being absorbed by other dominant groups that they couldn’t adapt to quickly enough.
Changing environment + being less competitive than homo sapiens (not sure “war” is the right word) + intermingling (Nenaderthals and HomoSapiens bred together into the modern day human) (yes, you’re the analogue of a half-elf.)
Giving human history of treating humans of the same species with slightly different genetic features… I’m almost glad of not knowing what we would have done to a whole different species.
“It’s the humans rights declaration, not the hominids rights declaration”
and we have genetic evidence of an individual that was a smooth 50% neanderthal and 50% denisovan, it’s either just an innate trait in hominids/primates, or all animals will just default to horni when able.
We used to have hominid cousins living at the same time as modern humans like neanderthals and denisovans. I don’t think there’s a consensus answer on what wiped them out, ecological changes over the last ice age reducing the availability of resources that they couldn’t adapt to maybe, or prehistoric wars maybe and only the most vicious and violent hominid group survived, or some combination of changes and fighting and being absorbed by other dominant groups that they couldn’t adapt to quickly enough.
I think it’s widely accepted that it’s a mix of:
Changing environment + being less competitive than homo sapiens (not sure “war” is the right word) + intermingling (Nenaderthals and HomoSapiens bred together into the modern day human) (yes, you’re the analogue of a half-elf.)
Giving human history of treating humans of the same species with slightly different genetic features… I’m almost glad of not knowing what we would have done to a whole different species.
“It’s the humans rights declaration, not the hominids rights declaration”
Well, humanity has about 6% Neanderthal in their genome.
and we have genetic evidence of an individual that was a smooth 50% neanderthal and 50% denisovan, it’s either just an innate trait in hominids/primates, or all animals will just default to horni when able.
Oh, it’s true. The Neanderthal even migrated to Denisova.
Ok, but this is more like if one of those was a bird.
Yes, but all from the same line. Less like fantasy and more like Rimworld.
Europeans fucked them into extinction
I think we also interbreed some of them out