Haplogroup R Neanderthal origin.

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What do you think?

The Denisova cave Neanderthal is allegedly Y-DNA R. That would mean that the specimen is a male. If Neanderthals had haplogroup R, that would push back its antiquity quite considerably.

Of course, it will be claimed that this is contamination -- without any real proof, as has been done before:


https://www.reddit.com/r/genetics/co..._haplogroup_r/



The "Neanderthal Romeo, modern human Juliet" theory suggests that Neanderthal males exterminated modern human males, and bred out the leftover modern human females, until everyone outside Africa was a Neanderthal hybrid. This is the proposed solution to the dilemma of non-African TMRCA dates: why non-African Y-DNA has a TMRCA that is roughly as old as the modern human-Neanderthal interbreeding events -- which affected everyone outside Africa.

http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropol...et-hypothesis/


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Corroborating evidence:


R is proposed as having a Siberian origin. Denisova cave is in Siberia.

Y-DNA R peaks on a per-capita basis in Siberians and Amerindians. South American Amerindians have the strongest genetic ties to Neanderthals. Yakuts, Mongolians and Chipewyans have 40% more Neanderthal admixture than Polish and German subjects.

The estimated time of arrival for Y-DNA R corresponds roughly with the following events:

Levalloisio-Mousterian transitions in Mongolia and Siberia:

https://books.google.com/books?id=iq...=PA35&lpg=PA35

The convergence of Levalloisio-Mousterian implements in a modern human occupation site 25,000 years ago in Siberia.

The appearance of a Sinodont mandible with measurements of robusticity within or exceeding the Neanderthal range, at Strashnaya cave, further west in Russia.

A skull of a man who died 20,000 years ago, referred to as the Lishu skull, which exhibits a mosaic of modern and archaic characteristics.

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Additionally:

The finding of Levalloisio-Mousterian-like flint implements in Canada's Rainbow Mountains, dated to 5,000-6,000 years ago, suggests a Neanderthal presence there.


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Yaeh, possible. Because Central Asia or South Asia are possible places of origin of haplogroup R. And Neanderthals existed in CA: