It wasn't that long ago that modern humans held each other as slaves. And to this day, we war with people who look very much like ourselves. It's almost inconceivable to me that AHM didn't kill off Neanderthals.

The question is not whether one species has a good reason to kill another. It's whether cohabitation provides any economical benefit. If not, the default is to kill. And it's hard to imagine any benefit the Neanderthals may have provided AHM.

It's not hard to argue that modern humans still have slaves. (for-profit prisons as one example)

You don't even need to go that far. There is a thriving market in human trafficking that is global in scope.

Kinda my point... I don't see any possible scenario Neanderthals could survive into modern times barring geographic isolation on an island for example. Even if Cro-Magnon did kill them off later man would have.

Have you read this yet? I thought it was pretty good. It focuses mainly on: Homo sapiens, neanderthals, **** erectus, and **** heidelbergensis.

I need to bump that one up on my reading list. I also want to read "The Humans Who Went Extinct:Why Neanderthals died out and we survived"

This topic interests me I need to revisit it soon. I have been recently been reading about the Spartans of ancient Greece a topic I am completely fascinated with.

updated genetic evidence

http://www.technologyreview.com/view...n-neanderthal/

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Why don't we just face it now? We've sufficiently interbred as subspecies to call ourselves one distinct species (****-sapiens sapiens). Some humans share more DNA with a certain subspecies, others with another. Why not take the next step and recognize each of our different characteristics as the result of influence from our several different subspecies? At least that way we can recognize the mountain of our ancestry rather than continuing on looking for some crazy missing link, or alien creator. I mean everybody interbred with e'erbody imo. We go on and on doing it.