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Anthropology

Warpy

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3. Back before the Planck Institute managed to sequence Neanderthal DNA

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Aug 14, 2022, 07:07 PM

Aug 2022

a child was found in a cave in Portugal who had pretty evenly divided characteristics of both Neandertals and modern humans. Researchers proposed him as proof of interbreeding, but without more hybrid samples, he was pretty much dismissed as a one-off. We had no way of knowing how close or how far apart we really were from our Neandertal cousins and how difficult interbreeding might have been

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagar_Velho_1

Humans didn't develop in a straight line. Most anthropologists are now calling it more like a braided stream that joins, divides, joins again, divides again, and meanders all over the place. Our evolution was messy, not tidy.

I can live with that.

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