> The same reason why it took so long for some people to have significant Neanderthal ancestry to become accepted fact. This is mostly because for several deca

> The same reason why it took so long for some people to have significant Neanderthal ancestry to become accepted fact. This is mostly because for several decades the term Neanderthal in pop culture has been used to describe someone who is brutish or dumb. Many people want to believe that they are descended from or fashioned by the god(s) or godlike idealized humans, not from some people who trudged through a swamp and sheltered in a rock outcropping. And now with the realization that people of Eurasian ancestry carry Neanderthal genes, you're already starting to see the same fallacy emerge in the opposite direction , where people are starting to use Neanderthal ancestry as a badge of superiority over those without it like the people of Sub-Saharan Africa.