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New Scientist - Thoroughly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus10/23/2014 10:52:15 am PDT

I don’t know what the author is trying to get at here:

Before now we couldn’t rule out that our fraction of Neanderthal ancestry was the result of interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans who were in the near east before Neanderthals got there, says David Reich from Harvard University, a co-author on the paper. While these near-eastern humans were anatomically modern, they did not show modern behaviour, he says.

I’m not sure that has been communicated clearly.