Neanderthal gene still alive in many humans today!

Attachment 309A recent landmark genetic study has found that many humans today possess neanderthal ancestry. An analysis of the neanderthal genome has revealed that roughly 1 to 4% of Eurasian population come from neanderthal's.

Researchers say that there was limited interbreeding between the neanderthals and primitive homo sapiens, but as a consequence of this interbreeding, it allowed for gene flow between the two groups. It is most likely to have taken place as populations were spreading out of Africa, possibly taking place in North Africa, the Levant, or the Arabian Peninsula, researchers say.

Professor Svante Paabo, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is quoted in the BBC saying "They are not totally extinct. In some of us they live on, a little bit".

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