Dirty_Jerz
Ethiop
no....white people are the same as us......we are all descended from one species of humans that evolved in Africa 200,000 years ago
what you might be referring to is that SOME people of European descent seem to have genes that came from Neanderthals.....now that doesn't mean that all or even most Europeans are descended from Neanderthals.....it just means that before Neanderthals went extinct in Europe some of our African ancestors had sex with them and gave rise to human/Neanderthal hybrids
what?
Study casts doubt on human-Neanderthal interbreeding theory | Science | The Guardian
When the genetic sequence of Homo neanderthalensis was published in 2010, one of the headline findings was that most people outside Africa could trace up to 4% of their DNA to Neanderthals. This was widely interpreted as an indication of interbreeding between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens just as the latter were leaving Africa. The two species would have lived in the same regions around modern-day Europe, until Neanderthals died out about 30,000 years ago
Taking these population differences, known as "substructuring", into account for early humans living in Africa, Manica and his colleague Anders Eriksson worked out that modern humans and Neanderthals must have shared a common ancestor some 500,000 years ago and that the subsequent evolution of this species was enough to account for the DNA crossover.
"There was an ancestor of both Neanderthal and modern humans some archaeologists would call that Homo heidelbergensis that would have covered Africa and Europe about half a million years ago," he said. "It wouldn't have been a single well-mixed population, it would have been like modern humans populations that are closer to each other are more similar."
About 350,000 years ago, the European and African ranges of this last common ancestor became separate: the European range would later evolve into Neanderthals and the African range into anatomically modern humans, who left the continent 70,000 years ago to cover the world.