Neanderthal hoopla

I've been staying away from posting anything on the recent Neanderthal stuff, but I thought I'd give some props to the many posts at Gene Expression and Razib's Gene Expression.
In particular I like this post where Razib discusses the idea of "Ecotype persistence", then Chet Snicker's post showing an example of an ecotype in bears.
Check all these out, as well as John Hawks weblog.