Re: Neanderthal vs Cro-Magnon


Spanish Paranoia wrote:
johnwl4@xxxxxxx wrote:

On Google. In my list of entries on soc.anthro. paleo, it immediately
follows yours.
Silly me, sorry


Oh, well, it could have been anywhere - I should have been more
specific.

You should look on Roger Bagula's list on Yahoo, "Ancient
Mediterranean."
I had a sort of argument with him that mtDNA doesn't show that no
interbreeding took place, except I don't argue. It doesn't show that.
I will, when I have enough time, thanks a lot.

It has been said that the number of "inter-breedings" between the time
Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon most likely co-habitated and the present
time would have wiped out any traces of Neanderthal mtDNA from today's
humans.
Is this so?

Yes, mtDNA goes can easily go extinct in a small group. You'll
pardon me, I'm sure, if I talk way below your level, but suppose there
are two women, Joan and Sally with different mtDNA. Joan has 10 sons;
Sally has 10 daughters. They marry and each has ten children (people
with no TV and few and simple pleasures.) Joan's mtDNA has been lost
in her line, and is extinct unless she has sisters or female relatives
who have descended through the female line.
More complicated in large groups, of course, and involves statistics
that I'm too rusty to follow very well, let alone explain.
Like the title in English noble houses which could only pass
through the male line. Went extinct all the time and had to be
revived by the king, for whom it was quite lucrative.

REgards
John GW

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