Did they use a cro magnum?
It is well known that early people joined Neanderthal people. This week, however, researchers unveiled the delightful details of these sexual sessions with different types, which allegedly include kissing, pampering and even transmission of STDs.
Prehistoric smooching
“When you kiss someone, oral microbes will go back and forth between your mouth,” said anthropologist Laura Weyrich of Pennsylvania State University. The researcher postulated that this prehistoric saliva exchanged saliva after finding a signature of human bacteria on a Neanderthal tooth discovered in 2017 in northwestern Spain, reports the BBC.
Through the comparison of Neanderthal and human microorganisms, Weyrich decided that the exchange of bacteria could be linked to 120,000 years ago, ‘one of the first periods in which we described cross-breeding between humans and Neanderthals’, Weyrich said. .
Hence the idea of a human-Neanderthal makeup session.
“It [microbial swapping] could have happened once, but then somehow magically reproduced, if it happens that the group of people who were infected were very successful, ”she said. “But it could also be something that happened regularly.”
And while these salivary glands can also be transmitted by sharing food, there is no evidence of a Neanderthal preparing meals for humans. Maybe they shared a romantic mammoth tail a la ‘Lady and the Tramp’.
Subspecies SOS’e
Unfortunately, bacteria were not the only by-product of this carnal cross-pollination. Researchers believe that our species acquired human papillomavirus (HPV) type A by spoiling our ancestors.
“I have tested it thousands of times using computational techniques, and the result has always been the same – this is the most likely scenario,” says Ville Pimenoff, an evolutionary geneticist at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Therefore, it was highly probable that people had cavemen in the region bedding. “It is very unlikely that this happened just once, because then it would be more likely that the transmission would not survive further,” Pimenoff said.
The researcher postulates that obtaining type A from our ancestors explains why the disease is so cancerous in humans – we did not have time to build up an immunity because we experienced it so early.
Neanderthals may have infected us even with an early iteration of HIV – a favor we gave back by apparently giving them herpes and others LIKE them, according to research conducted by evolutionary experts at Stanford University and the University of Arizona.
The advancement of masculinity
Did Neanderthals have a massive erectus? Hard to say. But a 2013 study found that Neanderthals, like modern humans, do not have the genetic code for penile spines, which our closest relatives – the infamous wild bonobo chimpanzees – use to compete for females. It is suspected that our collective ancestors shook off their sexual traces about 800,000 years ago, reports the Guardian.
As a result, it is likely that these extinct peoples were primarily monogamous just like us. So yes, they were faithful despite the fact that they slept outside their species.
Thag the lover
Nevertheless, researchers believe that Neanderthals may have slept more than their humans. They derived this using the often disputed method of measuring the length difference of their index finger and ring fingers (which often correspond to the testosterone in the uterus).
Chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans – which have a greater tendency to pamper – boast lower average ratios on average, while early modern humans and their current brethren were higher, the BBC reported.
While Neanderthals’ numerical differences fell in the middle, scientists theorized that they were more foolish than humans – but less so than the other great apes.
If that was not enough to advance your perception of ancient peoples, recent studies have found that prehistoric people may have been plump hunters and that women were no strangers to bringing the bacon home in 10,000 BC.