Nobody claims that we interbred with chimps though. And there is the recent historic evidence. Native Americans look very neandertalish in old photos, and even

Nobody claims that we interbred with chimps though. And there is the recent historic evidence. Native Americans look very neandertalish in old photos, and even older drawings suggest that they used to look even more so. The difference is so stark that they were believed to have been pretty much exterminated, until DNA showed that they probably joined the Spanish, and their descendants now call themselves "Mexicans"... When they adopted European lifestyle, they started looking almost white. Or the Chinese. Slanted eyes used to be seen as the defining feature of Chinese people. Almost no modern Chinese have slanted eyes today. It can still be seen occasionally in people who came from some isolated place in Western China, or something like that, but it seems absurd that something so rare could make it into a stereotype. Too much weight is put on genes. I think it's somebody's nice fantasy that we solve all our problems through gene editing, but it isn't so.