I remember how some disagreed with inbreeding between Neanderthal & HSS... now it's commonly accepted...

Now there is evidence very late hunter gatherers took planned steps to prevent interbreeding...

To me that says at one time it was considered better to breed between Neanderthal & HSS than between settled farmers and wandering hunter~gatherers?

To be fair & open, there was probably 25,000 years difference... yet I can conceive two groups that shared hunter~gathering versus completely different lifestyles of more closely related groups.

[cosmosmagazine.com]

Jammer