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Date: July 03, 2019 11:20PM
I did try to find a paper referencing what you're stating, but couldn't find it.
The closest I came to was this paper:
"They used information from sequenced genomes of ancient Neanderthal DNA to identify Neanderthal DNA fragments in living humans on chromosomes 1 and 18 that correlated with reduced cranial roundness. "
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"The Neanderthal variants lead to small changes in gene activity and only push people slightly towards a less globular brain shape,"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181213142153.htmBut that was about roundness, i.e. shape, not size.
While I was looking for your geneticist, I did find the following interesting articles...
"Thus, there is no evidence that the groups we commonly call 'races' have distinct, unifying genetic identities. In fact, there is ample variation within races (Figure 1B).
"Ultimately, there is so much ambiguity between the races, and so much variation within them, that two people of European descent may be more genetically similar to an Asian person than they are to each other (Figure 2)."
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"In the biological and social sciences, the consensus is clear: race is a social construct, not a biological attribute."
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/And this one...
"Neandertals had larger brains than we now do. But modern humans roaming around Africa and Europe 90,000 years ago had brains about the same size as Neandertals, albeit with larger temporal lobes."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/02/skull-and-face-changes-define-modern-humans/I like the part where it says that modern humans IN AFRICA had brains about the same size as their Neandertals contemporaries.
I found a bunch more along similar lines, but I want to go to bed and tomorrow is a holiday in the states and I'm all out of popcorn. I look forward to reading what I'm sure will continue to be a well researched, totally fact based, non-mud slinging discussion.