Monday 27 April 2020

Neanderthal traits still living in us

Neanderthal girl. Image courtesy of Christopher P.E. Zollikofer, Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich..



Joel Kontinen

Scientist say that Europeans and Asians inherited 1 – 2 per cent of their genome from Neanderthals.

So, if you said that "freckles, red hair and even narcolepsy are traits that a Neaderthal left in you. They found, “that Icelanders had inherited 3.3% of their archaic DNA from Denisovans and 12.2% from unknown sources. (84.5% came from close relatives of the reference Neanderthals.)”.

Neanderthals. and Denisovans are our cousins, but they lived in the not distant past, just after Noah’s Flood.

Source:

Gibbons Ann. 2020, The Neanderthal DNA you carry may have surprisingly little impact on your looks, moods. science April 22