[gcruse]

Are we still thinking that the 'ginger gene' which brings red hair/freckles probably is a result of neanderthal/human interbreeding?

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3adc5573604d.htm

[blam]

"Are we still thinking that the 'ginger gene' which brings red hair/freckles probably is a result of neanderthal/human interbreeding?"

Yup. RedHeads are Neandethals

[blam]

That theory previously received a boost with the discovery in Portugal of a 24,500-year-old skeleton that Trinkaus and Zilhao view as a prime example of interbreeding between modern H. sapiens and Neandertals (SN: 5/8/99, p. 295: http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc99/5_8_99/fob7.htm). The child's bones display a potpourri of traits from both species, in the researchers' view.