Talk:Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans

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Dawn(s?) of civilisations
Looking at the graph in the top-right of the article and given what we know about Neanderthals, it seems that humans should have been biologically capable of civilisation since at least 600 ky ago and probably even longer. The cradles of civilisation that we know of all seem to have gradually gone from a situation that was essentially, at least as far as archaeological evidence that I'm aware of goes, the same as it had been for hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of years to a dawning civilisation about 7–10 ky ago in what must have been independent events around the globe. That's about a ½% difference.

So I hope I can be forgiven for my perhaps naive question: where are the ancient African civilisations? I would expect there to have been remains of an ancient African civilisation at least 20 ky old. And what triggered the various dawns to happen so close together? Was it the retreat of the ice caps or something else? I've read a number of other Wikipedia articles, but they don't seem to tackle the question, not even answering it with an honest ‘we don't know’ even though it seems to me to be the obvious question to ask after reading this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 15:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Disadvantages?
The Abstract of Ackermann et al asserts that hybridization "was an essential creative force in the emergence of our variable, adaptable species." There is definitely evidence of advantageous DNA from introgression. But are there any disadvantages?

In 2020 Svante_Pääbo, who recently won a Nobel Prize for his research into paleogenetics, suggested possible unadaptive introgression, as noted on his WP page: "determined that more severe impacts upon victims, including the relative incidence of the necessity of hospitalisation requirements, and vulnerability to the COVID-19 disease have been associated via DNA analysis to be expressed in genetic variants at chromosomal region 3, features that are associated with European Neanderthal heritage."

Let's work toward a clearer NPOV here by indicating both pros and cons of "interbreeding". Martindo (talk) 12:12, 5 October 2022 (UTC)