Did they use a cro magnum?
It is well known that the first humans became related to Neanderthals. However, this week the researchers revealed the delightful details of these interspecific sex sessions, which would have included kissing, amusing and even transmitting sexually transmitted diseases.
Smooth prehistoric
“When you kiss someone, the oral microbes will go back and forth between their mouths,” said anthropologist Laura Weyrich of Pennsylvania State University. The researcher postulated that these prehistoric peoples exchanged saliva after finding a human bacterium signature on a Neanderthal tooth discovered in northwestern Spain in 2017, the BBC reported.
By comparing Neanderthal and human microorganisms, Weyrich decided that the bacterial exchange could be linked to 120,000 years ago, “one of the first time we described the cross between humans and Neanderthals,” Weyrich said.
Hence the idea of a human-Neanderthal makeup session.
“This one [microbial swapping] it could have happened once, but it would have been somehow propagated in a magical way, if it had happened that the group of infected people would have been very successful, “she said. “But it could also be something that happened more regularly.”
And while these clandestine salivaries can also be transferred through food sharing, there is no evidence that a Neanderthal prepares meals for a human. Maybe they shared a romantic mammoth tail at “The Lady and the Tramp.”
Interspecies BTS
Unfortunately, bacteria were not the only byproduct of this carnal cross-pollination. Researchers believe that our species could have acquired human papillomavirus type A (HPV) from the removal of our ancestors.
“I’ve tested it thousands of times using computational techniques, and the result has always been the same – it’s the most likely scenario,” says Ville Pimenoff, an evolutionary geneticist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Therefore, it was very likely that people would place caves on reg. “It is very unlikely that it happened once, because then it would be more likely that the transmission would not survive,” Pimenoff said.
The researcher postulates that acquiring type A from our ancestors explains why the disease is so cancerous in humans – we did not have time to build immunity because we encountered it so early.
Neanderthals may even have infected us with an early iteration of HIV – a favor we returned by giving them herpes and other STDs, according to research by evolution experts at Stanford University and the University of Arizona.
The progression of manhood
Did Neanderthals have a massive erectus? Hard to say. But a 2013 study found that, like modern humans, Neanderthals lacked the genetic code for the spines of the penis, which our closest living relatives – the infamous promiscuous bonobo chimpanzees – use to compete for females. It is believed that our collective ancestors threw their sexual spurs about 800,000 years ago, The Guardian reported.
As a result, it is likely that these extinct peoples were predominantly monogamous just like us. So yes, they were believers despite sleeping outside of their species.
Thag filanderul
However, researchers believe that Neanderthals could have slept longer than their human compatriots. They deduced this using the often disputed method of measuring the difference in the length of the index finger and ring fingers (which often correlate with the level of testosterone in the uterus).
Chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans – who have a greater penchant for amusement – boast lower numbers, while both the first modern humans and their siblings today had higher values, the BBC reported.
As Neanderthals’ discrepancies in numbers dropped in the middle, scientists theorized that they were fooling more than humans – but less so than other great apes.
If this wasn’t enough to cast doubt on your perception of ancient peoples, recent studies have found that prehistoric people may have been chubby pursuers and that women were no strangers to bringing bacon home in 10,000 BC.