He talks here about a population roaring into the Iberian peninsula, conquering those there, killing enslaving and or eating the males, and then porking, for generations, all the conquered women who lived there before.
Great stuff!
This pattern recurs over and over again in his ancient DNA accounts, all over Eurasia.
He calls this mixing, and describes it as a good thing.
What is he smoking?
He never talks about the conquerors' own womenfolk, what happened to them, killed and or eaten before the expedition, left behind to fend for themselves, brought along but never mated with again, whatever.
One implication is that the conqurors did not abuse these women as much as they did the new victims.
The conquerors oppressed new female victims, but then what had they done to the old ones, given them awards for loyal service?
They drop from sight almost as peacefully as his account of how the Neanderthals went down to a higher more advanced power the modern humans as if it happened almost overnight, a Lockean tabula rasa wiped clean and overwritten.
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