My ancestry is non-African, so I got some New Man Valley People in me. “Thal” is valley in German. Neander, comes from the protestant theologian and hymn writer Joachim Neander, who was born Joachim Neumann (which is “New Man” in English). He changed it to the Greek “Neander” (which also meas “New Man”). It just so happens that the Neander Valley is where the first remains of these hominids were discovered, and they became known as Neanderthals.
Neanderthal is very near Westphalia, so if anyone has Neanderthal blood in them, it would have to be me.
But if you’re non-African in ancestry, in part or in whole, you have a bit of Neanderthal in you:
I knew it!
Don’t rule out Cro-Magnon either, we can say with some certainty that our Ice Age ancestors and their predecessors mixed with others. Anthropologists say we cannot prove this, but after all we are human.
Cro-Magnons are early modern humans.
One MtDNA haplogroup has been traced to Cro-Magnons, which means a certain percentage of people living now have a Cro-Magnon maternal ancestor.
Are not all people of non-African ancestry descended from Cro-magnons ?
No. They were just one group of early modern humans that left Africa.