If your ancestors originated from an area of the world where there were bananas and fish, and shared more genes with them than people from other areas of the world, it would indeed raise interesting questions.
Yes. But that's not what the article was about. Modern humans and Neanderthalians share much more genetic material than the 4% the article talked about.
The 4% is the proportion of genetic material we inherited from them. And that's an interesting and non-trivial thing.
So Neanderthalians were some of our ancestors. But bananas weren't.
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I also share genes with bananas and fish.
If your ancestors originated from an area of the world where there were bananas and fish, and shared more genes with them than people from other areas of the world, it would indeed raise interesting questions.
But you are not a descendant of bananas or most fish.
We share a common ancestor
Yes. But that's not what the article was about. Modern humans and Neanderthalians share much more genetic material than the 4% the article talked about.
The 4% is the proportion of genetic material we inherited from them. And that's an interesting and non-trivial thing.
So Neanderthalians were some of our ancestors. But bananas weren't.
Speciation paradox
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