The presence of archaic (Neandertal) and modern anatomical characteristics in some late Pleistocene European skeletons, the overlap in DNA between modern humans and Neandertals.
What is Neandertals?
- Neanderthals are an extinct species or subspecies of ancient humans that lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
- Some scientific publications favor Neanderthals.
- The original spelling, Neanderthal, comes from the valley in Germany where Neanderthal fossils were first discovered in the 19th century.
- However, in 1901 the German name for the valley was officially changed to Neanderthal.
- Ironically, the current world population is about 8 billion, which means there has never been more Neanderthal DNA on Earth.
- There is evidence that some Neanderthals evolved pale skin and red hair long before Homo sapiens.
- Neanderthals and modern humans belonged to the same genus and lived in the same region of Western Asia for 30,000 to 50,000 years.
- Genetic evidence suggests that while they interbred with non-African modern humans, they eventually ended up in different branches of the human family tree.
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