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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] 4 percent Neanderthal?
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 15:26:40 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sasson Margaliot" <>

It's the absence of
> some of this archaic material in Africans that is surprising and
> interesting, its presence in Europeans is "as expected" and
> trivial. [[ Why one alternative here is surprising while other trivial or
> expected is not clear to me? And we have to fold in the view developed
> from other evidence that Eurasians resulted from an out-of-Africa exodus
> or multiple emigrations. KN]]
>
> Why would it be absent in Africans? Either lost by Africans or
> acquired by Eurasians. [[or Africans never acquired "it"? KN]]


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