Re: De extinction: Are Neanderthals next?

On 4/14/25 5:25 PM, Kalkidas wrote:

On 4/8/2025 9:59 AM, JTEM wrote:

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  Neanderthals are extinct? That's not what I heard!

Auditory hallucinations are common in schizophrenics.
Neanderthals as a people are extinct. There are arguments
over how much of their DNA remains within modern humans,
spread out, but most put it in the vicinity of 20%.
Like, it's said that Europeans have maybe 4% and "Native
Americans" have some Neanderthal DNA, but from a different
source. So add those two together and maybe 6% of Neanderthal
DNA remains...
That's an over simplification, of course, and there's more
than two distinct human populations. In fact there's
distinction between North American & South American natives!
The point is, if you look at everyone and pile it all together,
the usual claim is that 20% of a "Complete" Neanderthal genome
could be found.
Same say more.
But even if it were 100% would that change anything? Spread
over over THAT many people, THAT much distance?
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