Slashdot now has a post on Neandertal introgression:
While modern day eugenicists might all too eagerly read into these findings to draw their own politically biased conclusions, people such as myself, who happen to be of northern European ancestry, may find it fascinating that somewhere in our lineage ancient humans and Neanderthals decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia."
There's a problem with this: sex is not always a gentle act, and can occur via force. Neandertals were a robust people, powerfully built. Am I the only one who has watched or read The Clan of the Cave Bear? No need to romanticize this, it isn't an either or situation. The prominence of female Amerindian and male Iberian lineages in Latin America was not just a function of the love between Malinche and Hernán Cortés, there were broader sociohistorical forces which drove the pairing of native women and European men.
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There's a problem with this: sex is not always a gentle act, and can occur via force.
Shhhh! You'll have feminists declaring Neandertals as tools of the Patriachy!
I wonder how sex with Neanderthals affected the human imagination. Was it great? Do we yearn for it still? Gals and their fantasies about luv with romance-novel-bookjacket big-jawed brutes -- hearkening back to blissful hours under the thumb of some Neanderthal?
Loved those scenes in "Clan of the Cave Bear" where lithe blonde Daryl Hannah took it doggie-style from some straggly-haired beast. "Take it, bitch," he tried to say, only he didn't have language.
huh? feminists have been calling the Patriachy Neandertals for a long time. Poor Neandertals keep getting insulted ...