[s1artibartfast]

I thought there was some decent evidence including butcher marks on bones and widespread genetic immunity to human specific prions

[btilly]

That's evidence that the Neanderthals engaged in cannibalism. That's not evidence that homo sapiens ate the Neanderthals as food.

[s1artibartfast]

I think the genetic evidence is adaptive mutations that are present in all humans

[btilly]

Our species also engaged in cannibalism.

That isn't evidence that we killed the Neanderthals for food. Rather than, say, having added some ecosystem stress through competition that left them less able to handle a major volcano 40,000 years ago.

[s1artibartfast]

I think that if human practiced widespread and consistent cannibalism, then it stands that we likely ate Neanderthals and other homo species to some degree