The descriptions and abstract of this work seems to drift (somewhat randomly) between talking about absorbing "gene variants" versus absorbing "genes" from Neanderthals. I think they mean almost always "gene variants", as others in the field say that all humans today essentially have the same genes; it is just the variants or alleles of the genes that are found different in different individuals or regional population frequencies. Is this how others view this situation which confused me at first before I sensed it was probably sloppy language usage? Kenneth Nordtvedt Haplogroup I Clade Modalities and Trees at: http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net -----Original Message----- From: Carl Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 2:45 PM To: Rootsweb Subject: [yDNAhgI] When Populations Collide The Genomic Landscape ofNeanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans http://www.hhmi.org/news/when-populations-collide ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message