That book is definitely incorrect given we know the neanderthal "y" chromosome disappeared some 60 thousand years before neanderthals did, replaced by H. sapiens sapiens's.
H. sapiens mtDNA was also found in "recent" neanderthal remains.
H. sapiens mtDNA was also found in "recent" neanderthal remains.
That's a rather bold claim about one of the world's foremost paleoanthropologists.
"When you are searching for ancient DNA [from 40,000 to 45,000 years ago] … all these early sapiens have recent Neanderthal DNA, and that's why we have [Neanderthal DNA] today. But when you reach and you try to extract DNA from the last Neanderthals, contemporaries of these early sapiens — let's say between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago — there's not a single Neanderthal with sapiens DNA." https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/simply-did-not-work-...
Oh, wait, it was...