Neanderthals not related to humans, say paleoanthropologists
Although many scientists think Neanderthals were a subspecies, which could have interbred with Homo sapiens, new research appears to confirm the more widely held view that Neanderthals and modern humans were significantly different, enough to qualify as separate species.
"Neanderthals did not contribute to the ancestry of modern Europeans," Dr. Katerina Harvati, a paleoanthropologist at New York University said in an interview.
The research lends strong support for the single-origin theory of modern human evolution.
Dr. Eric Delson, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History and Lehman College, both in New York City, said the new research was a mathematically rigorous approach to the question of Neanderthal-human relationships. "It's a very convincing piece of work," Dr. Delson said.
[Meanwhile in the world of 'Newspeak': The US state of Georgia's school superintendent Kathy Cox has proposed striking the word evolution from Georgia's science curriculum and replacing it with the phrase "biological changes over time". Cox repeatedly referred to evolution as a "buzzword"]
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