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There is absolutely no evidence of this. Sounds like something to focus on if you really want to find a rational basis for racism.

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There is a ton of evidence of it. Some humans are up to 20-30% neanderthal. Professors just arent screaming it from the rooftops. See the most recent dwarkesh podcast

I think you’ve got your facts garbled, or the podcast has. Up to about 20% of Neanderthal DNA has survived somewhere dispersed among humans, but some countries and backgrounds have a maximum of 3% per human. The average is about 2% outside Africa.

watch the podcast again, he explicitly calls out:

"but some countries and backgrounds have a maximum of 3% per human. The average is about 2% outside Africa."

as mostly false

I would like to see his sources because that contradicts the most well known studies. There are still a lot of paleoanthropologists who don't think that interbreeding was possible at all and the apparent Neanderthal admixture in modern humans is due to contamination.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10406...

dont have time to find it. he basically says the 2% thing is an antiquated understanding that conflicts with recent ancient dna studies. Go watch the podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI

I can track down the studies he’s criticising. A Google search doesn’t show up anything refuting those. What are the studies he’s citing?

Watched it. He didn't present _any_ sources supporting his claims. There's nothing there.

Publishing a ton of research on this would basically be a career ending move

Ok, you're almost there. Why would it be career ending?

If there's a ton of evidence for this, please provide some citations. I for one have never heard a single scientific claim for individual people having 20-30% Neanderthal DNA. As the sibling comment said, there may be that much Neanderthal DNA spread around in total, but no single individual sapiens has more than a tenth of that.

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