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We are hybrids ... of homo sapiens and neanderthals
At least those of us who are not sub-Saharn African.
Denisovans too for some of us.
Do you have a source I could scope on that?
I know there's genetic backflow from neanderthals to many african populations. I found a snippet from a paid article that seemed to be saying that (some?) neanderthal-related ancestry found in sub-saharan populations is early sapiens genes that went into neanderthals, but I couldn't find a solid yes/no on neanderthal alleles in sub-saharan pops. I'd guess there'd be at least a little gene flow from nearby populations that do have small neanderthal ancestry, but that's just my uneducated guess.
And I think at least 1 ghost population of different humans that we've not found remains of!
Actually, I looked it up my information is out of date. They have now discovered that sub-Saharan Africans also have Neanderthal DNA.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/01/30/new-study-identifies-neanderthal-ancestry-african-populations-and-describes-its
https://sci-hub.se/
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