The #1 New Discovery Terrifying Anthropologists

For more than a century, the dominant narrative in anthropology has insisted that modern humans spread across the globe, and replaced more “primitive” cousins like the Neanderthals. But as genetic studies have become more sophisticated, and fossil discoveries are reevaluated in light of new technology, a different, more controversial theory is emerging: modern Europeans, especially those in the far north—Balts, Finns, Scandinavians—may be more than just distant cousins of Neanderthals. They may be their direct descendants.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 ARE EUROPEANS EVOLVED NEANDERTHALS?
18:00 GENETICS REVEALS THE DANEROUS TRUTH

EVIDENCE:
The Contribution of Neanderthal Introgression to Modern Human Traits
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

Skin colour and vitamin D: An update
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/p...

Quantifying the contribution of Neanderthal introgression to the heritability of complex traits
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

Denisovan and Neanderthal archaic introgression differentially impacted the genetics of complex traits in modern populations
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/art...