Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: b. 1961
I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.
source: "Ask the Author Live: Elizabeth Kolbert on Neanderthals". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2011. 
topic: Neanderthals
