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> might have come from a lucky admixture of Neanderthral and Denisovan genes You probably didn't mean to step in a minefield here, but not all human population
by bpodgursky 6y ago
> might have come from a lucky admixture of Neanderthral and Denisovan genes
You probably didn't mean to step in a minefield here, but not all human populations have Neanderthal genes. The prevailing thesis is that mostly complete (minus fiddling like lactose tolerance and pigmentation) modern humans were involved in the out-of-Africa migration ~60k-100k years ago.
- ljf 6y agoThe percentage of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is zero or close to zero in people from African populations, and is about 1 to 2 percent in people of European or Asian background. From: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/dtcgenetictesting/neanderthaldna https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/dtcgenetictesting/neanderthal... Personally I have nearly 4 percent according to 23andme - not sure what benefits this may or may not have given me. I'll be interested to see if my children inherit this.