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No, it's not. we know the genes the Neanderthal transferred, and nothing with head size is in there. Also, Africans have autism too.
by markessien 2y ago
No, it's not. we know the genes the Neanderthal transferred, and nothing with head size is in there. Also, Africans have autism too.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoAre you sure that rates of autism are evenly distributed?
- delecti 2y agoThey don't need to be evenly distributed to be strong evidence against the Neanderthal connection. If autism was basically "latent Neanderthal ancestry", then you'd expect essentially no autism outside of people with European or Middle Eastern ancestry. And it seems that the prevalence of autism is actually fairly even, but might actually be lower among white people. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/addm-community-report/spotlight-on-racial-ethnic-differences.html https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/addm-community-report/spot...