[blam]

"This was published because Europeans and certain Middle East peoples (e.g., Jewish people) have much higher Neaderthal DNA than, say, blacks or certain Chinese.

Neanderthal DNA By Race: Asians Have Closer Link From Multiple Breeding Events, Studies Say

Neanderthals interbred with both the ancestors of modern Europeans and Asians about 50,000 years ago, but scientists looking at Neanderthal DNA by race have speculated why East Asians have a greater proportion of the ancestry than Europeans. New research suggests our heavy-browed ancestors bred with East Asians on multiple occasions, giving the contemporary East Asian population higher levels of Neanderthal DNA, according to two studies published last week in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Scientists have long hypothesized why East Asians on average carry 15 percent to 30 percent more Neanderthal DNA than Europeans.

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[Jewbacca]

Lumping “Asians” as a group is rather silly.

Israel is in Asia, for example.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 2020, thanks blam, I missed the ping and the topic.

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