Neanderthals are separated by 15 mutations from Anatomically Modern Humans?.

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The prompt asks us to evaluate a true/false statement about genetic differences between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH).
Option 1: True. This would assert that Neanderthals and AMH differ by exactly 15 mutations. In population genetics, the divergence between lineages is typically described in terms of millions of years and many more genetic differences, not a fixed small number like 15 mutations. Therefore this claim is not consistent with established estimates of human-Neanderthal genetic divergence.
Option 2: False. The widely supported view is that Neanderthals and AMH diverged hundreds of thousands of years ago and accumulated a substantial number of genetic differences. Describing the separation as merely 15 mutations vastly understates the scale of divergence and would be misleading; modern sequencing data show many differences across the genome, reflecting long separate evolutionary histories. Misconceptions here might stem from conflating specific loci or minor differences with the overall genomic divergence.
In short, the claim that Neanderthals are separated by 15 mutations from Anatomically Modern Humans contradicts current understanding of human evolutionary genetics, where divergence spans far more substantial genomic differences and a much longer timescale.

ANTHRO_102_18379FA25S Exam #3

Neanderthals are separated by 15 mutations from Anatomically Modern Humans?.

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