Re: Neanderthal of new lineage found in France

Primum Sapienti wrote:

The paper is public.
 https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(24)00177-0
September 11, 2024
 Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals
before their extinction

It's honestly fascinating but DNA simply does not work the way
such papers claim it does.
As I keep pointing out:  BILLIONS of people alive right now,
walking around this earth, descend from a Eurasian population
significantly older than any so called "Mitochondrial Eve,"
yet nobody would be aware that this ancestral population ever
existed if not for a lucky mutation placing mtDNA only
Chromosome 11.
Absent that one little mutation and there is not a hint of this
ancestral Eurasian population...
DNA "Evidence" says that Europe was uninhabited... when? Maybe
4k years ago? Certainly not much beyond that. This is looking
at Europeans today, of course.
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