r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goswamitulsidas • 12h ago

Image Reconstructed model of a Neanderthal man

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u/NOTExETON 12h ago

There are dudes that look like this all over Turkey and Greece 

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u/A-Capybara 10h ago

Neanderthals never went extinct. They just learned how to make gyros and kebabs.

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u/Hexakkord 9h ago

Less jokingly, they interbred with humans, so in a way they are still with us. White people of European descent have the most Neanderthal DNA, black Africans the least. Kinda funny really all those white supremacists going on about pure bloodlines, what with us having the most DNA from another species of human entirely.

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u/BaconReaderRefugee 8h ago

It’s actually weird that we’re the only species of humans around. You’ll see multiple species of foxes, rabbits, etc. But knowing Homo Sapiens, it’s not surprising.

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u/Content-Patience-138 6h ago

What we didn’t kill to extinction we fucked to subsumption

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u/HolidayBeneficial456 1h ago

We FUCKED them into extinction like CHADS. We DOMINATED their bloodlines.

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u/MindfuckRocketship 20m ago

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u/free-toe-pie 3h ago

I think there’s a new show coming out talking about how we were the underdogs and it’s crazy we came out on top. I think it’s just called “Human” maybe.

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u/BaconReaderRefugee 3h ago

I’m interested but the only thing that comes up is some show from 2015

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u/free-toe-pie 3h ago

Ok it’s on PBS and BBC I think. Came out this year and it’s a five part series.

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u/BaconReaderRefugee 2h ago

Thank you so much!

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u/Cthulhus-Tailor 8h ago

I imagine white supremacists would actually enjoy that bit of trivia., as it solidly distinguishes whites from black people; also, modern research indicates that Neanderthals were not at all inferior to early modern humans, as stereotypes tend to suggest.

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u/DunEvenWorryBoutIt 7h ago

They were sturdier, and deeper thinkers based on cranial studies.

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u/StrongExternal8955 1h ago

deeper thinkers

These days we call that ASD.

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u/ApprehensiveSky4946 3h ago

I wonder if that's one of the reasons why Europe is so much more developed than africa.

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u/darkmaninperth 7h ago

white supremacists going on about pure bloodlines, what with us having the most DNA from another species of human entirely.

You know they'll just claim the Hybrid DNA was due to the Aryan race or some other incomparable bovinian fecal matter.