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Old 08-19-2012, 09:48 AM   #35
Fegasderty

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Genetic studies show that Neanderthal genes for high intelligence mixed with African genes around 60,000 years ago. These Neanderthal-African hybrids were the first intelligent humans.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gn...-on-human-sex/

"One measure the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the genomes of present-day Europeans and find that the last gene flow from Neandertals (or their relatives) into Europeans likely occurred 37,000-86,000 years before the present (BP), and most likely 47,000-65,000 years ago. This supports the recent interbreeding hypothesis, and suggests that interbreeding may have occurred when modern humans carrying Upper Paleolithic technologies encountered Neandertals as they expanded out of Africa."

"Also, this admixture date is well after anatomical modern humanity, and well before the classical “Great Leap Forward” of behavioral modernity. "
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