On 01/08/2006, at 3:55 AM, Richard Baker wrote:
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However, it's at least logically possible - or so it seems to me; Charlie or someone else more knowledgeable might correct me - that some modern humans are descended from Neanderthals but that the characteristically Neanderthal genes have been diluted to the vanishing point.
We all seem to have evolved from Neanderthals. But then we're subspecies of _Homo sapiens_. _H. sapiens neanderthalis_ spread out from Africa, a group that remained in Africa became _H. sapiens sapiens_, and spread out in another wave.
There are certainly skeletons that are claimed to show both modern human and Neanderthal characteristics, so some interbreeding may have been going on.
Yep. There's some disputable morphological evidence. Just not much genetic evidence.
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