John Hawks' post on Neandertals & FOPX2

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We can now show that living people are much more different from early modern humans than any differences between Neandertals and other contemporary peoples.

Extraordinary.

By Caledonian (not verified) on 19 Oct 2007 #permalink

Apart from the inv(FOXP2)(px) I guess this seems to be solid evidence of interbreeding between neandertals and humans.

Fascinating article.

Yeah, it all points to recent selection sweeps particularly in Eurasia.