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seems like i have heard this several times over the last 30 years or so and its always described as "surprising"... i mean, have you ever met a man? it would be more surprising if there were NOT "frequent intermingling"

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06004-0

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01986-x

I am sure human races interbred with each other and we are the end result.

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What about H. ergaster - isn't that the African form of erectus, or did it come later? And isn't heidelbergenis constrained to Eurasia?

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> It’s not really a shift in academia or anything as much as advances in genetic sequencing allowing us to see conclusively that the genetic makeup of all modern Europeans is around 1-3% Neanderthal dna

And the article says a Neanderthal ancestor 4 to 6 generations back. 2^5 = 32, or about 3% of his ancestry.

I didn't know that bit about asian populations. I wondered why I had so much Neanderthal DNA according to 23andme!

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Does more complete theory have a definition that is objective?

Yeah I'm 40, lol. Can't believe I just assumed everyone knew this for all these years.

Is that not what they said? I think you interpreted it as somehow meaning "the genes themselves physically lost battles in expression" or something but I'm certain they're just talking about overall dilution over time for the reasons you said ad an example lol, since that is generally the thing like they said

“Slowly Og pulled aside his loincloth….”

Is there any compelling evidence of cities or civilizations before the ice age?

right? like, is this some Mandela Effect or something? I didn't think it was such a rare thing but I have seen more than one article suggest it.

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When you read stories of humans having sexual relations with pillows, car exhaust pipes, and goats, you realize boinking neanderthals was probably widely and enthusiastically pursued by Europe’s oldest humans.

Well somebody’s never read Clan of the Cave Bear.

I am looking for a good book or website about how dictatorships end, especially the peaceful transitions of power (e.g., Franco in Spain). Any suggestions?

It’s not something promoted in intro courses as it opens up a conundrum, that being well what do you call the archaic/modern human that comes from it and so forth, probs not taught in 90s due to evolution bad hysteria then, colleges don’t like losing funding, maybe your profs sucked or were just of the 5% conservative anthropologists, idk odd they would say that

I was taking Anthropology courses in the mid nineties and not one of my professors agreed with my opinion that there was no way sapiens weren't hooking up with Neanderthals repeatedly. As if they'd never met a human. So, I'm not sure where those who held that belief were especially 50 years ago, but I didn't meet them.