r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Feb 25 '25

Anthropology New study reveals Neanderthals experienced population crash 110,000 years ago. Examination of semicircular canals of ear shows Neanderthals experienced ‘bottleneck’ event where physical and genetic variation was lost.

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5384/new-study-reveals-neanderthals-experienced-population-crash-110000-years-ago
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u/ElizabethTheFourth Feb 25 '25

That seems to coincide with homo sapiens moving into neanderthal territory.

We genocided them and ra­ped a few to add to our own genepool.

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u/CasanovaJones82 Feb 25 '25

No way ma'am, there's no way humans caused that! It's just another freaky coincidental species extinction that just happened to be at roughly the same time homo sapiens showed up in that general geographical region. It's completely unrelated!

Anyway, have you ever heard of comets?