Ok, I am not supporting bestiality here. But, I just came to know about a Dogxim, a dog fox hybrid and I had known for a long time that horses and donkeys can breed (to produce a mule). So, I was just curious, can humans breed with any other animals closely related to us?

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
    43·
    7 days ago

    There used to be Neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and a few others, we basically interbred them out of existence.

      • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        7 days ago

        Not so sure, except for a last few holdouts in Spain about 40k years ago, who were probably whipped out by natural catastrophe along with regular humans in that area.

        I think we kept diluting their gene pool by having sex with them and out breeding them.

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          With everything you know about humans and our history of causing mass extinction everywhere we settle, of racial violence and irrational fear of anything that is a little bit different, you really don’t think there were any other contributing causes to the mysterious extinction of EVERY SINGLE NON-HUMAN HOMINID ON THE PLANET?

          • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            31·
            7 days ago

            For most people, except sub Saharan Africans, we are also talking about our ancestors when talking about neanderthals. Most of those bones we see on museums are probably the great x grandfathers of many people walking past.

            Obviously we have no idea what happened over huge parts of deep human pasts, Neanderthals were a sparse population to begin with, and absorbing their people into the rest of humanity just by fucking is certainly a solution

      • devfuuu@lemmy.world
        11·
        6 days ago

        It’s not really called “extinction” from more modern understanding I guess, more like assimilated over a long period of time and from species contact and living with each other.

    • Florn [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      7 days ago

      “Interbred them out of existence” is sort of a bleak way of looking at it. For a lot of people, they’re our ancestors. They’re a part of human history and heritage.