Thread:Argali1/@comment-27097330-20160807015023/@comment-26184570-20160807222742

ChazmanianDevil wrote: Any genetic changes this mixing caused? Well, it caused Middle Eastern Neanderthals to become a seperate ethnicity from European Neanderthals, so when later Homo Sapiens came and assimilated the Neanderthals into their larger population, not only did Middle Easterners mix less with Neanderthals than Europeans, the Neanderthals they did mix with were already not purely Neanderthal, and already had Homo Sapien in them. Because of those two things, people of Middle Eastern heritage have far less Neanderthal in them than someone from Northern Europe. The people with the most Neanderthal in them today are the Basque, they can be up to 6% Neanderthal.