I know what my wife would say about me.
There have been lots of theories, and lots of rumors, even a few public figures have been said to be related…
Russian boxer Nikolay Valuev being a notable choice, though Neanderthals were shorter and stockier than Cro-Magnons, and Valuev is 6′ 11″ so why anyone would think that I cannot fully comprehend. Finally the question of interbreeding is conclusively and scientifically answered.
From Discovery News
Are You Related to Neanderthals? Photos
by Jennifer Viegas Dec 18, 2013
Although tiny, this Neanderthal toe bone from a female who lived 50,000 years ago has yielded the most complete sequence of the Neanderthal genome. The analysis, published this week in Nature, reveals two interesting facts: First, Neanderthal family members often bred and had children — the female whose toe was tested likely had half-sibling parents who shared the same mother. And second: Neanderthals and other human ancestral groups interbred…a lot.
“There was a lot of interbreeding that we know about and probably other interbreeding we haven’t yet discovered,” co-author and University of California at Berkeley professor of integrative biology Montgomery Slatkin said.
There have even been proponents of Bigfoot being a neanderthal hybrid, though again I can never understand why people think a short stocky human becomes a giant hairy one. Hybridization makes strange bedfellows, in more way than one. If this announcement will re-fan the flames of the Ketchum debate, who can say?
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