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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5175220" data-attributes="member: 2205">It was a valid conjecture... nobody accepted it as fact, because there wasn't any evidence to support it.  It just seemed possible.  That wasn't the only other scenario, by the way.  Neanderthals could have died out without being killed by Homo sapiens sapiens.And... previous mtDNA studies had put forth the opposite findings; that there wasn't Neanderthal DNA in modern humans.So, I'd be careful of jumping too hard on this as "proof"---it's intriguing evidence, but exactly what it means will need to be sorted out for some time to come.Not just some; that's the most generally accepted taxonomy.And because I'm a nitpickity nitpicker about this, scientific names should be italicized, and only the generic name is capitalized; the species and subspecies names are never capitalized.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Err... wrong.  It was more common in archaic European populations; it's extremely rare today.  It does, however, also occur relatively more frequently in populations of Bushmen in South African and Aborigines in Australia.  Even according to this article linked here, Bushmen shouldn't have any Neanderthal descent.No, that's not true either.  During the time period that modern humans and Neanderthals supposedly interacted, glacial ice sheets came down hundreds of miles south of northern Europe.  Nobody was living there; modern or Neanderthal.</blockquote>

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