[SunkenCiv]

[Pic credit: Allan Henderson]

[exDemMom]

I am curious as to how the hair and coloring for the Neanderthal model was derived. Was there a well-preserved specimen to work from? Are Neanderthals considered a separate species or a subspecies to homo sapiens (or homo erectus)?

[SMARTY]

There are professors and students here who look like that.

[Wuli]

Maybe every now and then, over the thousands of years, some marriages were not quite so “evolving” or “merging” and some individuals have still come through in our time with a larger than average contingent of the neanderthal genome, leading to the use of the epithet of calling someone a “neanderthal” as accurate in some cases. Maybe I’m joking?

[KosmicKitty]

Things you can’t research.

I would love to know how IQ correlates to Neanderthal genes. Because I really think they were much more intelligent than we give them credit for. I think the Neanderthal just got bred into homo sapiens over many years. How did they change homo sapiens?

[Moonman62]

People today of Native American, European, Asian, and North African heritage have Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, with percentages estimated between 1-4 percent. As a result, the majority of people alive today are related to these humans that, as a distinct population, are thought to have gone extinct 39,000-41,000 years ago.

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I’ve read that the DNA may be conserved from a common ancestor rather than the result of interbreeding.

[JimRed]

As a result, the majority of people alive today are related to these humans that, as a distinct population, are thought to have gone extinct 39,000-41,000 years ago.

A few may have been living in mountainous areas of eastern Russia within the past hundred years, the legendary wild men called Almas.