Evidence for interbreeding with Neanderthals, only Africans pure

2.3.12

Evidence for interbreeding with Neanderthals, only Africans pure: The results of this study, published Thursday last week, are similar to the findings reported (and foretold) last month here in Digital Journal, but the final publication of this study by researchers Svante P�bo, Adrian Briggs and colleagues truly shows that years of denial about interbreeding between the two primates should now really come to an end.


One of the co-authors of the scientific paper, Adrian Briggs, stated unambiguously that the DNA of "Humans and Neandertals are 99.5 percent identical," as is quoted in the English language section of Der Spiegel.


Better yet, and a blow to Caucasian and Asian racists, the comparison of the human and Neanderthal genome makes it clear that it is only Africans who are 100 percent Homo sapiens, while in European (including American and Australian settlers) and Asian populations one can find up to 4 percent DNA stemming from the archaic and often maligned Neanderthal species - a hominid that went extinct more than 20,000 years ago. A graphic designer at the BBC has transformed this information into a surprising graphic everyone should take a look at.