Neanderthals

“One of them is that Neanderthals were of an incredibly small population size, marginal population size for a half million years since separation from modern humans, persistently low population size.”

“If you look at across the entire animal kingdom at how low genetic diversity is, modern humans are at the low end, but they're not off charts. Neanderthals are off charts. They were a population that must have been going through repeated population crashes, di…”