> That book is definitely incorrect That's a rather bold claim about one of the world's foremost paleoanthropologists. "When you are searching for ancient DNA

> That book is definitely incorrect That's a rather bold claim about one of the world's foremost paleoanthropologists. "When you are searching for ancient DNA [from 40,000 to 45,000 years ago] … all these early sapiens have recent Neanderthal DNA, and that's why we have [Neanderthal DNA] today. But when you reach and you try to extract DNA from the last Neanderthals, contemporaries of these early sapiens — let's say between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago — there's not a single Neanderthal with sapiens DNA." https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/simply-did-not-work-mating-between-neanderthals-and-modern-humans-may-have-been-a-product-of-failed-alliances-says-archaeologist-ludovic-slimak https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/simply-did-not-work-...