[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 260 names. See the list's description at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[VadeRetro]

I like this for some reason. It means that, yes, most of our heritage came out of Africa recently but there probably was some interbreeding with the hominids who had fanned out earlier, including the neanderthals.

I thought all would depend upon isolating neanderthal nuclear DNA, a thing which may never happen. However, I wasn't reckoning with the ingenuity of the scientists in the field. There's another way. They have found some few genes which a lot of non-Africans have and which Africans don't. These genes may be the heritage of our interbreeding with not-so-related hominids after the last radiation from the breeding ground.

I'm pinging blam because I know he also likes the idea that the neanderthals are still around -- in us.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[narby]

Thanks for the ping PH.

Good post and good responses all around.