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John Hawks' post on Neandertals & FOPX2  permlink

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Posted on: October 19, 2007 3:43 PM, by Razib Khan

Please go read it now.

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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.

Posted by: Caledonian | October 19, 2007 7:48 PM

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

Posted by: MartinC | October 19, 2007 7:49 PM

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Fascinating article.

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

Posted by: pconroy | October 19, 2007 7:52 PM

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