Tracker, I looked it up and watched it....very interesting documentary. It again shows the totally wrong "guess" that all the past predictions have been. Makes me sick that history is taught as fact when it is only a big guess. Just like Otzi and his copper axe. The "copper age" predictions were found to be totally wrong. Otzi not only had a copper axe but a smelted copper axe that was finely made. Decoding Neanderthals showed that a lot of the DNA is concentrated around Italy, which incidentally is where Otzi was found..Small world isn't it.
Thanks for the heads up on the show..
The DNA information was based on an earlier model of Neanderthal admixture, and on an incomplete genome. With the full sequencing of a Neanderthal genome shortly after the program was produced, and after broader and more extensive studies, it has now been found that East Asians have the highest Neanderthal DNA of all modern humans.
http://www.genetics.org/content/early/2013/02/04/genetics.112.148213http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/30/030148Interestingly all of the Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is Y-DNA. Yet no modern human DNA has ever been found in a Neanderthal Y chromosome, nor in a mitochondrial profile. Which means that Neanderthals were very good fornicators with modern human women, but no modern males ever reproduced with Neanderthal females. Furthermore, Neanderthal DNA seems to be concentrated in certain areas of our genome. The Oase 1 specimen, an early modern human from Europe, was 50% Neanderthal on one of his chromosomes. Different individuals and human populations have different kinds of Neanderthal DNA regardless of percentage.
