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NEW- The Prehistoric Hookup That's Wired Into You
Neanderthal DNA is not ancient history. It is in you right now, between 1 and 2% of your genome, and it arrived because tens of thousands of years ago, when your ancestors walked out of Africa and met people who had been living in Europe and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years, they recognized them as fellow humans. They mated. Repeatedly. Across continents. And the evidence is still sitting in your cells.
What would it feel like to find out the light skin in European and some Asian populations came from Neanderthals, not from modern humans? That Inuit genetic variants for digesting…
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