Would you mind giving your source for this quote? I have heard this several times in the last year, but no one has ever been able to point me to a source.
The "Seven Daughters of Eve' research team at Oxford offer some very interesting interpretations of genetic mapping evidence. Did your quote come from them? That would surprise me.
Would you mind giving your source for this quote? I have heard this several times in the last year, but no one has ever been able to point me to a source.
You could take your pick:
http://www.expressindia.com/fe/daily/19970712/19355423.html
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/video/Fate.html
http://www.genum.com/gmo_evolution/gmo_evolution.htm
etc. etc. etc.
Discover Magazine did a big article on neanderthals in 96 or so just before the DNA studies came in and the big question they asked was why, given fact that neanderthals and modern humans had lived in close proximity for long periods of time, there were never any signs of cross breeding; it should have been common, and no clear-cut sign of it has ever turned up. the DNA evidence explains it; we could no more interbreed with neanderthals than we could with horses.