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Swanlafitte t1_jab5e68 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:53 AM

Reply to comment by wittor in Revealed: Europe's Oldest Humans had Surprisingly Frequent Intermingling with Neanderthals by OptimalCrew7992

My guess is there are more Neanderthal genes around today than at any time before. One study says they never had more than 5000-70,000 at their peak. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/how-a-perfect-storm-of-sex-and-population-size-may-have-sealed-the-neanderthals-fate/amp

If this is correct then they were never diluted.

wittor t1_jab6txk wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:05 AM

yes, they are caried by us today.

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