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>For example, all present-day populations show about two percent of Neanderthal ancestry which means that Neanderthal mixing with the ancestors of modern humans
by awt 7y ago
>For example, all present-day populations show about two percent of Neanderthal ancestry which means that Neanderthal mixing with the ancestors of modern humans occurred soon after they left Africa, probably around 50,000 to 55,000 years ago somewhere in the Middle East.
I thought subsaharans lacked Neanderthal admixture?
- deogeo 7y agoAccording to https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/ https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/ and the chart on top of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_..., that seems correct.