The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

“One of the things that he talks about, towards the end, is what happened to Neanderthals. To come back to your question, his position would be that the evidence for the nature of contact being aggressive is the fact that Neanderthals disappeared, and that there never was a full assimilation. We have negative evidence, basically. It’s true we can say from the genetics that there was not a population assimilation. They didn’t merge into us. There was some interbreeding, but it wasn’t like the ‘total assimilation’ performed by the Borg from Star Trek; a lot of Neanderthals were disappearing without being integrated into the Homo sapiens populations.” Read more...

Five Books Imagining Neanderthals

Rebecca Wragg Sykes