Humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor roughly half a million
years ago. They then split and evolved in parallel: humans in Africa,
and Neanderthals in Europe. When Humans finally ventured to Europe, they
had sex with Neanderthals, swapping DNA around. Today, people who
aren’t of African descent have DNA linked to their Neanderthal
ancestors. Early modern Humans weren’t just having sex with
Neanderthals, of course, they were also banging each other more than the
Neanderthals providing greater genetic diversity.
Find out more about Neanderthals over at LinkedIn
here.
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