They haven't got it right. Some of you on the naturalistic side of things have shrugged and said it didn't matter when I told you that a Cambridge Professor has proof that the methods they used to say living Eurasians carry DNA from Neanderthals is deeply flawed and there is no real evidence for it. That attitude is letting the coverup continue and letting bad science continue that will be used to make other mistakes. Like the one reported on here.
This study claims that humanity became who we are because there was interbreeding of our main line with some "ghost" population AFTER Neanderthals and Denisovans split off from us, and this ghost population is responsible for 20% of our genes, concentrated in the brain and central nervous system. 80% of our genes are from our "mainline" population that was reduced to almost nothing a million years ago but slowly expanded and spun off the other two hominin lines. These claims are surely misinterpreting data. It makes no sense that we and we alone got our smarts from some mystery group that died out. The smarts helped us but somehow not them. Further, our mainline itself was from a line that was lingering near extinction for a long time. No indication that the other group, the one we got our smarts from, was near extinction, yet they are the ones who are gone. This group apparently frequently mated with our mainline ancestral group shared with Neanderthals. They haven't got it right. Some of you on the naturalistic side of things have shrugged and said it didn't matter when I told you that a Cambridge Professor has proof that the methods they used to say living Eurasians carry DNA from Neanderthals is deeply flawed and there is no real evidence for it. That attitude is letting the coverup continue and letting bad science continue that will be used to make other mistakes. Like the one reported on here. I have seen this problem before expressed different ways, where scientists claim "evolution moved at super-speeds" at some point in the H. Sapiens linage. What the data actually says is that while our species has the same general form in body as the other two species, our control system is radically different. WHY that happened is open to interpretation. Naturalistic explanations are "evolution moved at super-speed" which is unsatisfying because there is no indication of how or why it would move at "super speed" there or why it has not been observed moving at such speeds now. - and now add "We got all those genes from introgression with a mystery species." I have an alternative explanation. Man, as in H. Sapiens, is a distinct population because man had a distinct origin. A Divine One. Some brutish creature much like us in form may have been used as a template for the body, but the control system, the mind, was an innovation from God Himself. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genetic-study-reveals-hidden-chapter-in-human- https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genetic-study-reveals-hidden-chapter-in-human-evolution