tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post3144166130250335395..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Bias in estimators of archaic admixtureDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-2918382077946021852015-02-01T13:26:03.223+02:002015-02-01T13:26:03.223+02:00If you run neanderthal genomes through they come o...If you run neanderthal genomes through they come out as 100% african when we should expect them to be hypereuropean. This should wake people up to the limitations of this sort of population analysis but of course it doesn't.<br /><br />It's impossible to tell the true neanderthal ancestry levels from the information we have, or to even assert that any 'modern' genes actually come from anywhere but europe. It's probably over 3-4% but it could almost be much less than that due to selection.Fiend of 9 worldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712083368615685458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-42848854556354193582015-01-05T13:36:32.805+02:002015-01-05T13:36:32.805+02:00Dienekes, could this apply to the situation with N...Dienekes, could this apply to the situation with Neandertal? They were known present in Europe for quite some time, but hss only migrated from Africa 70,000 ybp. If a West Eurasian population admixed with Neandertal (winning the diversity lottery), wouldn't we expect higher intragroup diversity in Europeans vice Africans, creating a contradiction? Modern Europeans individually have only 3-4% Neandertal DNA, but as a population, it's around 20%. That's a lot of "extra" diversity, yes?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14322191436005068703noreply@blogger.com