Africans carry surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA
“That gene flow with Neanderthals exists in all modern humans, inside and outside of Africa, is a novel and elegant finding,” says anthropologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. The work, reported in this week’s issue of Cell, could also help clear up a mysterious disparity: why East Asians appear to have more Neanderthal ancestry than Europeans.
Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals
Modern Africans and Europeans may have more Neanderthal ancestry than previously thought
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