Why didn't neanderthal man have lots of deformities?

Question

Didn't neanderthal man have small clans that they would stick to?

With such a small pool of individuals, wouldn't there be a lot of inbreeding? wouldn't that cause lots of deformities?

Answer 1

Their anatomical and physical structures are more less complex than ours, so there would be less shuffling of genes, thus they do share a lot of similarities.

And being with small population, there would be so much different genes to share to. Look at the humans today! I mean we are so large and diverse, that genes get mixed so much, making such unique set of genes. Unlike them, they are not really so much diversed.

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