Does nobody else find it interesting that their great to the nth grandparent was a neanderthal?
I found it very interesting, Peter. Thanks for posting this.
I had already read a summary of the article you linked, but I was very glad to see the actual article in Science.
I thought it very likely that they had interbred with our ancestors rather than being completely exterminated by them, even before this discovery. I also wondered if their bigger heads may have made it more difficult for their mothers to give birth to them and may have led to their eventual decline.