About the Authors

Armando G. M. Neves

aneves@mat.ufmg.br

Affiliation Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Maurizio Serva

Affiliation Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell’Informazione e Matematica, Università dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: AGMN MS. Wrote the paper: AGMN MS. Conceived the idea to build a model for the interbreeding of Neanderthals and the African Ancestors of Eurasians and performed computer simulations on that model for this theoretical paper: AGMN MS.