[Graymatter]

SampleMan, or anybody else, can you answer this?
The conclusion that we are not related to Neandertals, is it based solely on mtDNA research or has there been another sort of genetic evidence? Because I don't see how mtDNA alone could prove it.

[AntiGuv]

They have looked at mtDNA sequences in Neanderthal fossils and early human European fossils and the sequences characteristic of Neanderthal fossils are absent from the early human fossils that they've examined. That is powerful evidence of no intermixing, at least so far as the bloodlines of those particular early humans.

[AntiGuv]

PS. And mtDNA sequences recovered from Neanderthal fossils have not been found in modern humans (meaning humans alive today) either.

[SampleMan]

SampleMan, or anybody else, can you answer this? The conclusion that we are not related to Neandertals, is it based solely on mtDNA research or has there been another sort of genetic evidence? Because I don't see how mtDNA alone could prove it.

Antiguv, like I said, I gotta go, but would you answer this please for Graymatter.

Graymatter, THE NEANDERTHAL ENIGMAN, by James Shreeve covers this very well and its an interesting read.

[SampleMan]

SampleMan, or anybody else, can you answer this? The conclusion that we are not related to Neandertals, is it based solely on mtDNA research or has there been another sort of genetic evidence? Because I don't see how mtDNA alone could prove it.

Antiguv, like I said, I gotta go, but would you answer this please for Graymatter.

Graymatter, THE NEANDERTHAL ENIGMAN, by James Shreeve covers this very well and its an interesting read.