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Mitochondrial DNA from Neanderthals looks quite different from the mitochondrial DNA of early modern humans [7].
Why didn't we interbreed with the Neanderthals when they were still around?
DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors.
(Remember, Homo sapiens lived side by side with Neanderthals for many thousands of years, and we differed from them chiefly in the face.)
I refer to the apology that the human race owes the Neanderthals, whom we apparently wiped the European floor with around 100,000 years ago.