(March 11, 2022 at 1:16 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote:(March 7, 2022 at 2:41 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: It isn't hard. The vast majority of the DNA inherited from Neanderthals is the same as what we already have.
I'm going to make a couple assumptions here for the sake of making the math easy.
Assumption 1: Humans (and Neanderthals) split from chimps about 5 million years ago.
Assumption 2: Humans and Neanderthals split 500 thousand years ago.
So if the difference between humans and chimps is 1.2% the difference between humans and Neanderthals is about 1/10th of that or 0.12%. So if a human inherited 2% of their DNA from Neanderthals they got about 128 million pairs, but only about 153,600 of those pairs are different from human DNA. That's .002% of your 6.4 billion base pairs only accounting for about 1/5th of the difference between the populations discussed in my previous post.
I was asking you to explain why Africans don't have any of that Neanderthal DNA.
Probably the most likely explanation is that Neanderthals didn’t live in Africa.
Boru
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