True, we probably will never know for certain, but at the rate of occurrence in our genome sexual violence would have taken place basically constantly over many generations and in many places (and then the offspring raised normally), or community would have taken place constantly over many generations and in many places.
Community is generally regarded by anthropologists as more likely.
Is there any way to prove that? From what I understand, we have some genetic evidence and a scattering of caves that seem to show snippets of life.
It seems like it would be really hard to form an accurate overview of millennia of coexistence from a small handful of data points.
True, we probably will never know for certain, but at the rate of occurrence in our genome sexual violence would have taken place basically constantly over many generations and in many places (and then the offspring raised normally), or community would have taken place constantly over many generations and in many places.
Community is generally regarded by anthropologists as more likely.