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