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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There Any Evidence of Interbreeding Between Neanderthals and Neanderthells?
Some population ganaticists, people in my field, argued that there could not have been very much interbreeding with neanderthels. But when we looked at the data, we saw such a signal. And so what we did over the next couple of years, as we really wrestled with this observation, was to try and figure out how it happened. We were actually quite incredulous at that signal, because i certainly came from a background which thought there was no such signal. There was no evidence amongst modern humans of a divergent ancestry that might be consistent with substantial breeding with a group like neanderthells,. The top candidate would have been the ancestors of euro
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