(March 31, 2010 at 5:07 pm)RedFish Wrote: Has it been determined that they actually died out, or is it possible that the neanderthal 'genes' became less prevalent. I'm not entirely convinced that the two species didn't interbreed.
''Chosen'' for what?
There is no neanderthal genes in Homo Sapiens in the sense you used that phrase.
However, hominini and early chimpanzees exchanged DNA up to a few thousand years after both split. Goes to show hybrid vigour is hard to remove.