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What did the 2010 sequencing of the Neanderthal genome reveal about their relationship to us?
Svante Pääbo's work — a 2022 Nobel — showed our closest relatives are not entirely extinct: their DNA influences skin, immunity, and more in billions of people.
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The Neanderthals Neanderthals were a human species that lived across Europe and western Asia from roughly 400,000 to 40,000 years ago — large-brained, fire-using, tool-making hunters who buried their dead and interbred with modern humans: most people outside Africa carry about 1-2% Neanderthal DNA. Why they vanished remains one of science's liveliest arguments.
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