Nick Wade just wrote up an article on the relationship between Neandertals and divison of labor. John Hawks hurls a cannon of a post at this hypothesis.
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The paper of record reports on introgression. Here is a tantalizing tidbit:
Two other reports of DNA studies of possible mixing of human and related genes are expected to be published in the next few weeks.
...I have suspicions, but I'm in the dark, so I'll be checking in on John Hawks regularly…
Update III: John Hawks comments.
Update II: Here is the paper. The abstract:
A common assumption in the evolutionary scenario of the first Eurasian hominin populations is that they all had an African origin. This assumption also seems to apply for the Early and Middle Pleistocene populations, whose…
The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals:
...Here, we find that our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals, share with modern humans two evolutionary changes in FOXP2, a gene that has been implicated in the development of speech and language. We furthermore find…
Update: Update at the bottom....
In reference to the sequencing of the Neandertal genome, Kambiz at Anthropology.net states:
I have one little gripe with the New York Times article. Wade quotes a geneticist, Dr. Bruce Lahn saying there is, "evidence from the human genome suggests some…
Thanks for a good laugh!