re: #526 Obdicut

Well, they share more. The difference is consistent, but it’s not really that big.

And the most likely place the interbreeding took place was the Middle East, so your cloudy part of the theory doesn’t really hold up well.

If the initial interbreeding took place in the Middle East it means only that Neanderthals had spread there, from elsewhere after evolving, to interact with homo sapiens more recently coming out of Africa.

Skin color and vitamin D is a real issue, although I don’t buy legends lasting for 10s of thousands of years.