Neanderthal Genetic Bottlenecks - a deep dive!

[@barscapan3810]

Thanks!

[@robertmoye7565]

Thanks, very cogent explanation.

[@jamiegallier2106]

Great explanation.

[@alruiz5096]

What happened to cause the bottleneck?

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

That is a whole other series of videos haha

[@jbaccanalia]

10 thousand is a really narrow bottle neck. If we're 2% Neanderthal (fully admixed) and 1% of us are autistic. I have to wonder if autism was a pretty normal state for Neanderthals, like 50%? Or is it a stronger mutation?

[@snowmiaow]

That is interesting. Maybe they all were.

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

As Dr. Casanova explains another videos, Neanderthals were not autistic and had no higher raise of autism among them than any modern populations

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

@@serendipityculture1679 No, it wasnt. It has no higher rate in the population than it does today.

[@marcmyers1465]

Could you address the Genetic Bottleneck in West Virginia next, Please ? 🤔

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

Ahahahah I assume that’s a joke

[@marcmyers1465]

​@@worldofpaleoanthropology😉

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

@@marcmyers1465 You never know these days lol

[@susanne5803]

Shouldn't that apply to useful mutations, too? Sure, they don't "weed out" so easily in a large population and maybe even have an advantage - but wouldn't the advantage be even greater in a small population? (For example: being able to digest mammalian milk as a grown up.)

[@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv]

You have some crazy commenters lol. Thanks for the video

[@johnbeumer9341]

Thank you for the brief discussion of genetic bottlenecks. I am afraid that I had turn away from the screen and listen because the dancing and popping captions were not only distracting, but had begun to give me a headache. If there is a way to turn them off I'd love to watch a few more of your videos.

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

This is the only video that has that

[@snowmiaow]

Where did the Neanderthal population originate? If they were all the same family they had to come from somewhere.

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

They originated in Africa and left before we did. They were multiple migrations of humans