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?

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

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“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.

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bleak way of looking at it

in spartan voice THIS… IS… LEMMYYYYY!!

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This is the worst thing I’ve read online this month, including the person who said “perchance” to me in a DM

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While we did fuck them a lot, knowing us, I don’t think that’s what caused their extinction.

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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.

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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?

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What do you mean? We are still around.

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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.

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