Posted: May 10, 2017 1:16 pm
Veida wrote:Shrunk wrote:If I understand correctly, it is still an open question whether there was interbreeding between H. sapiens and H. neanderthalis.
Er, no, that is not an open question. It is clear that there was such interbreeding. Shown by Pääbo and colleagues who sequensed the neanderthal genome and compared it to the Sapiens genome. Non-africans have a few percent neanderthal DNA.
I don't trust anything Pääbo publishes, ever since he tried to use coding gene sequences for genetic dating, and got the predictable nonsense, yet didn't seem to realise why!