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  26. Simon should read Darwin's Origin of Species. He has a chapter on hybridisation, and yes a first generation cross may have extra vigour but the genetic gears grind in subsequent generations - the second generation is sickly and it gets worse and worse for future generations. Eventually they die out. Ask a farmer. If you mix two pedigree herds you don't get a third pedigree herd. You get trash; not immediately but eventually. Europeans have 3-4% Neanderthal genes, tops. This isn't a 50/50 situation. And those genes are associated with ill-health. They were advantageous to Neanderthals but not so much to modern man. They are still in the process of leaving our gene pool. It is possible to tell if hybrids had a Neanderthal mother and Sapiens father or the other way around, because the Y chromosome is only inherited from the father. This tells you a lot about which species was dominant. When Sapiens first came to Europe the father of hybrids was mainly Neanderthal. Forty thousand years later when Sapiens were winning the father of hybrids was usual Sapiens. Always the winners take the females of the losers. European distinctiveness comes from the rigours of living in Europe, with its harsh winters. Europeans need to plan a year ahead otherwise they die out over the winter. The need to count days, invent calendars, build warm houses has made them thoughtful. Africa has always been a cornucopia of meat on the hoof and fruit on the trees; at least until modern times. European intervention has increased the population beyond the carrying capacity of the continent. Bad us.
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