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===Neanderthals===
"''If he [Neanderthals] is H. sapiens, the picture of human evolution, particularly as regards the Caucasoid, becomes more obscure.<ref name=Sertima /><!--pg 18--> Indeed there are those who have ventured to say [in 1985] that the modern Caucasoid populations are modifications of Neanderthaloids.''"<ref name=Sertima><!--pg 18--> Sertima, Ivan Van.<u>African Presence in Early Europe</u>Published by Transaction Publishers, 1985 ISBN 0887386644</ref> ''“Ovchinnikov et al. tested for the closeness of Neanderthals and modern European or Caucasoid populations … Neither Neanderthal sequence [tested] … was closer to European/Caucasoid samples than to samples from other parts of the world, thus not supporting this [Neanderthal mixing with Caucasoids] hypothesis.”''<ref>Ovchinnikov et al., Nature, 404, 30 Mar. 2000</ref> Krings reported the ''“Neanderthal genome to be outside the range of modern humans”''<ref>Krings et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96, 1999</ref>
==Physical characteristics==
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