Talk:Controversies in Science/Was there a mitochondrial Eve?/A critique of Absence of Regional Affinities of Neandertal DNA With Living Humans Does Not Reject Multiregional Evolution

How would Relethford explain how the Neandertal mDNA remained isolated if they were recorded across different regions of the planet?

Due to the discovery of the Lake Mungo 3 specimen (one of the Neanderthal skeletal findings), there is two methods of approaching this argument. The Mungo 3 specimen displays an mtDNA sequence that degrades with time, which could potentially have resulted in the extinction of certain species based upon their mtDNA sequence. This implies that there is potential that Neanderthal involvement in humanity could have been more significant and has simply decayed over the generations. The other argument presents that while Neanderthal and Human varied more so than any of the human or chimpanzee subspecies, they are closer tied to humans than 66% of chimpanzee subspecies. This identifies that the variances within one race is more drastic than the mtDNA variances between humans and Neanderthals.Nitoryu (talk) 02:05, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

I think the holes in the mitochondrial eve theory is what make the multiregional theory more probable.Mcder (talk) 03:09, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

I debate the fact that there is common mitochondrial DNA between humans and Neanderthals. In articles I found there was no proof of similarities. The only proof to defend against Mitochondrial Eve is bone structure; which in my option has not been completely proven.Asmit (talk) 03:10, 21 September 2012 (UTC)