Most humans alive today can trace a very small percentage of their DNA to Neanderthals. However, Neanderthal DNA is slightly more abundant in the genomes of certain populations.

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Most humans alive today can trace a very small percentage of their DNA to Neanderthals — a result of prehistoric sexual encounters between our ancestors and the now-extinct Stone Age hominins ...

Most of this Neanderthal DNA arrived in a 7,000-year period about 47,000 years ago, after modern humans came out of Africa into Europe, and before Neanderthals became extinct about 30,000 years ago.

"A number of studies have shown that Neanderthal DNA can have a beneficial impact," Sankararaman said. "The most striking example is a region in a gene BNC2 associated with skin and hair color ...

(CNN) — A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces that may have medical ...

About 2% of our genes are shared with Neanderthals. But some populations have slightly more Neanderthal in them, and it has been puzzling scientists. By looking at how human genomes' evolved, ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces ...