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I think you’ve got your facts garbled, or the podcast has. Up to about 20% of Neanderthal DNA has survived somewhere dispersed among humans, but some countries
by simonh 2y ago
I think you’ve got your facts garbled, or the podcast has. Up to about 20% of Neanderthal DNA has survived somewhere dispersed among humans, but some countries and backgrounds have a maximum of 3% per human.
The average is about 2% outside Africa.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agowatch the podcast again, he explicitly calls out: "but some countries and backgrounds have a maximum of 3% per human. The average is about 2% outside Africa." as mostly false
- astine 2y agoI would like to see his sources because that contradicts the most well known studies. There are still a lot of paleoanthropologists who don't think that interbreeding was possible at all and the apparent Neanderthal admixture in modern humans is due to contamination. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618212001085 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10406...
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agodont have time to find it. he basically says the 2% thing is an antiquated understanding that conflicts with recent ancient dna studies. Go watch the podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI
- simonh 2y agoI can track down the studies he’s criticising. A Google search doesn’t show up anything refuting those. What are the studies he’s citing?
- Tor3 2y agoWatched it. He didn't present _any_ sources supporting his claims. There's nothing there.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoPublishing a ton of research on this would basically be a career ending move
- dmead 2y agoOk, you're almost there. Why would it be career ending?