Is he saying that we do have a genetic intermix with Neanderthal or not? they supposedly went belly up around 35,000 years ago, but he wasn't talking about that time frame. I suppose if Neanderthal migrated back to africa over various periods of time that they are in our DNA and not just a dead end, but he is not that specific.
if we have any neanderthal DNA....it votes dem
Didn't read the article yet but it's easily provable we have Neanderthal DNA. All ya hafta do is see a picture of my wife and her brothers.
Course she claims the same is true with me...sigh.
prisoner6
From what I've read elsewhere, modern human DNA split from Neanderthal DNA about 700,000 years ago and about 300,000 years ago Neanderthals arrived in Europe replacing (or assimilating) an earlier hominid from whom we have no DNA samples. The great human/Neanderthal question has always been whether or not the modern humans who began moving into Eurasia after a great ice age a little more that 50,000 years ago interbred or simply wiped out the few Neanderthals who survived that ice age. I don't see where anything in this article changes what is all ready known about that.
As I have read, red hair and blue eyes are a genetic marker of the Neanderthal. My former wife had red hair and blue eyes. LOL.
The only way we will ever know for sure if we mixed with the Neanderthals is if we find a well enough preserved mummy to get some DNA. Until then, to each his own.
I think it likely, but that is hardly based on anything but guess work.
I don't think there's any genetic evidence that any homo sapiens produced offspring with homo neanderthalensis.
At least, not yet.