5. Lapedo Child • Found in Portugal • Given a ceremonial burial with pierced shell and red ochre • Was alive approximately 24.5 kya • Dental and pubic proportions say early modern human • Body proportions like leg bone length ratios say Neanderthal • Indicates mixture or ancestral pattern for late Pleistocene European humans • But the presence of a certain uniquely derived feature of Early Modern Humans refutes this • Dating and Burial style indicate child is the result of extensively admixing populations
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10. Are you sure you don’t have a little Neanderthal in you? Would you like to?
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