All this from a finger bone and a tooth.
“...South Americans possess more Neandertal genes than Europeans do...”
My goodness!!!!
(I am trying to find a way to be more sarcastic, but I am too busy killing myself laughing.)
I live in Latin America. These folks can’t pull their fabricated wool over my eyes.
And if they later determine it is from ordinary monkeys, the discovery will still be be used for atheist propaganda.
Actually, yes. Since every single cell contains the entire genome of the individual it came from, and given the exquisite sensitivity of PCE, it only takes the isolation of a very few cells to have a scientifically valid sample.
SEQUENCING the DNA produced by the PCR process is another matter and identifying specific fragments that "code" for certain characteristics takes a lot more work....but even that has gotten so sophisticated and automated that it is fairly simple to do.
If Asians possess more Neandertal genes, then it is not surprising that people who migrated to the Americas FROM Asia would also be likely to possess those genes.
The article says this bone has been given a provisional age of from 74,000 to 82,000 years old. Perhaps these people were heavily reduced by the Toba megavolcano around 73,000 year ago.