[sadponies]

"It is likely that Neanderthals were absorbed by modern humans,"

I was under the impression the consensus was that homo sapiens and neanderthals didn't interbreed.

[decimon]

I was under the impression the consensus was that homo sapiens and neanderthals didn't interbreed.

That was last year's consensus. This year's consensus is that they didn't until they did. Something like that.

More seriously, I think it's that better DNA analysis is changing the opinion to that neanderthal DNA is indeed in the Eurasian populations.