RE: Neanderthal Genome Study...
January 30, 2014 at 1:05 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2014 at 1:08 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I think the fact that 40,000 years of interbreeding produced only a 2% genetic contribution suggests the two groups were essentially distinct during the whole time they coexisted.
I defy you to find any two modern human groups that coexisted for just 400 years without showing more than 2% mutural genetic contribution, regardless of ethnic, racial, sociological and economic barriers. I think even the Brahmans and Dalits in India interbred many orders of magnitudes more often than Humans and Neatherthals.
I defy you to find any two modern human groups that coexisted for just 400 years without showing more than 2% mutural genetic contribution, regardless of ethnic, racial, sociological and economic barriers. I think even the Brahmans and Dalits in India interbred many orders of magnitudes more often than Humans and Neatherthals.
