timtyler comments on The Psychological Diversity of Mankind - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 09 May 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: gaffa 09 May 2010 04:55:44PM 3 points [-]

Where on Earth have you been for the last couple of days? : ] Hiding in a Croatian cave?

That being said, we currently have no reason to believe that this interbreeding had any phenotypic effects on the human lineage.

Comment author: timtyler 09 May 2010 07:07:22PM 4 points [-]

I am not aware of any evidence that "the "big bang" in cultural evolution that occured about 30,000 to 40,000 years ago" was caused by interbreeding with Neanderthals. That is probably bunk, IMHO. An entertaining story, but lacking in supporting evidence.