[TexasFreeper2009]

The original report stated that all races except blacks have between 1 and 3% Neanderthal DNA... what they didn't say was which races had 3% and which had only 1%.

I would bet dollars to donuts that red headed whites from western Europe have the 3%, since earlier studies have shown that Neanderthals were red headed.

[Defiant]

studies have shown that Neanderthals were red headed.

Well, based on the above picture, the hair may have been red, but it wasn't necessarily on their heads.

[BenKenobi]

Sigh.

This is bunk science.

Say you look at samples and find that the overall variation is 3 percent.

Then you look at the mean of neanderthals vs the mean of humans and find that it’s 3 percent.

It doesn’t mean ‘neanderthals fall within normal human variation’. You would have to use standard deviations.