The verdict is in and: humans and Neanderthals interbred.
The new data indicate that humans may not have replaced Neandertals, but assimilated them into the human gene pool.
“Neandertals are not totally extinct; they live on in some of us,” says Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and leader of the Neandertal genome project.
This has long been the Gonzo Science position.
And they settled in the south central/eastern region of what is now known as the United States of America…
Comment by Matt — May 7, 2010 @ 8:00 pm
Funny in part because the Neanderthal genes are only showing up in whites (and Asians)…
Comment by Jim — May 8, 2010 @ 11:28 am