A Comment on the Paper: Were the First Europeans Pale or Dark Skinned? (by C. Winters, Advances in Anthropology, 2014, 4, 124-132)

Anatole A. Klyosov^*

Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Anthropology.

DOI: 10.4236/aa.2014.44024                

Abstract

This comment considers a paper by C. Winters recently published in Advances in Anthropology, as well as some of his related papers, concerning the “origin of haplogroup R1 in Africa”, “Neanderthals originated in Africa”, “Neanderthals spread from Morocco to East Africa”, “the Cro-Magnon people were probably Bushman/Khoisan”, and other inventions which do not belong to this Journal.

Keywords

Haplogroups, Haplotypes, R1b, Neanderthals, Pygmy, DNA Genealogy

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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