Claim✓ Verified
Neanderthal mtDNA and Y chromosome share a common ancestor with modern humans only ~300-450k years ago, far more recent than the ~700-800k-year nuclear split, implying gene flow replaced both.
- Who
- David Reich
- Topic
- Neanderthal genetics
- Verification note
- Established in the literature (Posth et al. 2017 for mtDNA; Petr et al. 2020 for Y).