bran_buckler@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Isn’t there an inherent bias in that if the children stayed with the mothers, and since modern humans ended up surviving, while Neanderthals ultimately died out, that the surviving progeny that became our ancestors would have been the mix of modern human women with Neanderthal men. But, I guess this makes the assumption that women stayed with their group and didn’t leave, or get captured by other groups.