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That thought has the same effect on Ketchum, apparently.

Neanderthal women also had a differently shaped birth canal and were giving birth to babies with a more robust, i.e. less flexible skeleton. I am like Norse... I don't know what sort of point you are trying to make. You are shotgun blasting out information (some of it ten years out of date) mixed with conjecture. "Pure Neanderthals were long gone before dog domestication." Dogs were domesticated up to 40,000 years ago...around the same time that Neanderthals went extinct. You are using numbers which have been out of favor for quite awhile. "There is no technical edge sapiens had over Neanderthal." You then go on about how sapiens used needles to adapt and flourish...which (as far as we know right now) Neanderthals did not. Which kind of proves Norse's point of technological advantage aiding in homo sapiens' survival over Neanderthal...the point which you were trying to disprove. The use of technology gives an advantage. If opposing sides both have the possibility of developing the same technology, but only one side is able to develop and use it...that side had a technological advantage. The Nazis COULD have developed an atomic bomb first...the possibility of developing the technology was there. But, they didn't. Therefore the Allies had a technological advantage. "Neanderthal women who would have come into heat once a year following the pattern of northern mammals." I am still confused by this. There is a theory that a slight drop in fertility rates (due to scarcity of food caused by change in climate) could have led to their extinction given their overall low numbers. But, you are saying that Neanderthal women only had the physical ability to ovulate once every twelve month cycle. You tie this somehow into the frequency which a wolf goes into heat compared to a domesticated dog. Where are you getting this information that Neanderthals were only fertile for a short window of time only once every year?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/world-s-oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-found-morocco Our species is much older than 45,000 years old. And was in Europe 42,000 years ago.

Amen to that....thanks:) My girl Lulu is loving this weather for sure.

The hypothesis concerning Hybrids between Sapiens and Neanderthals is that only female hybrids could produce offspring. It would seem male hybrids were sterile. How do they know this? It would seem no one has found Y chromosome Neanderthal DNA in modern men. It’s gone extinct despite European and Asian populations carrying between 4-8% Neanderthal DNA in them. All passed on through Mitochondrial X chromosomes passed from mother to child. I’m extremely dumb when it comes to DNA. I try. But I seriously question the hypothesis that Bigfoot and humans could breed and create offspring. Based on morphology of humans and supposed traits of Bigfoot. Look how closely Sapiens and Thals resemble one another. And they had problems interbreeding. And now look at Patty....... https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-04-08/neanderthal-y-chromosome-disappeared-from-modern-men/7308982 C25643D1-0F28-4467-8FA1-75906121F3E5.webp

Really hope I can drive today or tomorrow to get to my main hiking area, never been anywhere where I could see & follow tracks in the snow.....that would be so cool! Weather has been brutal in my small town, no power or water for days, power on now and a trickle of water coming out of the faucets....should be better by Saturday they say. The only little highway to town has been closed all week, so everyone trapped here.....all we need is some zombies or White-walkers and we could make a movie, lol. Ended up burning the kids tree house to stay warm! Hope everyone is safe & warm:)

Other, a relict hominoid.

You are exactly right. Neanderthal women MAY have had more difficulties in the act of childbirth itself, but their higher levels of progesterone would have resulted in fewer miscarriages and a higher number of children born during their lifetime.

https://www.bigfootandbeyondpodcast.com/listen

None taken. Just the thought of cryptids having sex with human females gets me all randy.