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[โ€“] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (23 children)

This gets posted a lot, but nobody ever seems to post what the thing was.

The answer is probably "other hominids". Humans (Homo sapiens specifically) co-existed with them for a long time and competed with them over resources.

Edit: and the genetically deformed (with whom it would be beneficial to not breed, at least from an evolutionary standpoint) and corpses or people with disease

[โ€“] 404 20 points 4 months ago

See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans

Corpses, illness, "bad genes" (asymmetry etc) seems like a more reasonable explaination in my ears, with interacting/breeding in mind.

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