To: SeekAndFind
The original report stated that all races except blacks have between 1 and 3% Neanderthal DNA... what they didn't say was which races had 3% and which had only 1%.
I would bet dollars to donuts that red headed whites from western Europe have the 3%, since earlier studies have shown that Neanderthals were red headed.
To: TexasFreeper2009
studies have shown that Neanderthals were red headed. Well, based on the above picture, the hair may have been red, but it wasn't necessarily on their heads.
10 posted on
05/20/2010 11:18:07 AM PDT by
Defiant
(Were Democrats always marxist, or did Barry convert them all in the past two years?)
To: TexasFreeper2009
Sigh.
This is bunk science.
Say you look at samples and find that the overall variation is 3 percent.
Then you look at the mean of neanderthals vs the mean of humans and find that it’s 3 percent.
It doesn’t mean ‘neanderthals fall within normal human variation’. You would have to use standard deviations.
11 posted on
05/20/2010 11:19:25 AM PDT by
BenKenobi
(I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
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