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Because Neanderthals were discovered in Europe, people think Neanderthal DNA is a marker of European ancestry. East and South Asians, and Native Americans have
by profsummergig 3y ago
Because Neanderthals were discovered in Europe, people think Neanderthal DNA is a marker of European ancestry.
East and South Asians, and Native Americans have higher Neanderthal DNA than Europeans.
Source: https://images.app.goo.gl/Q1JLpT6MqiubCHq18 https://images.app.goo.gl/Q1JLpT6MqiubCHq18
- stainablesteel 3y agoasians have a lot of denisovan dna too, and there are bone fragments originally attributed to denisovans that were found by DNA to be a 50/50 denisovan/neanderthal mix somewhere in the ballpark of modern uyghur territory atm iirc (some of the only denisovan pieces ever found i believe) hybrids are usually unlikely to be able to reproduce but its not impossible depending on how distant they were, and we simply dont have enough evidence to deny they could have so it could have been neanderthal-denisovan hybrids that went across asia for all we know
- huytersd 3y agoThat’s East Asian. South Asians generally just have very high Neanderthal ancestors.