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The ties that bind Neandertals and modern humans

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Even though Neandertals went extinct a very long time ago, there’s still a little bit of their DNA in most all of us, a new study shows. And while the total amount of Neandertal sequence in any modern human is relatively low, the cumulative amount of the Neandertal genome that persists across all humans is 20 percent, this same report says.

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