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Anthropology

stopdiggin

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2. another 'interesting' piece

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Nov 4, 2022, 07:18 AM

Nov 2022

I've always been struck by what the anthropologists call 'total replacement' events. (and perhaps that's a matter of just not understanding what is being stated) But - we are to understand that large swaths of the world's population (outside Africa) retain a certain amount of Neanderthal and Denisovan genetics - but seeming none at all of certain 'modern human' populations? Seems hard to account ...

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