Non-African people have Neanderthal DNA due to interbreeding between Neanderthals and humans between 78,000 BC and 43,000 BC. Neanderthals had language, music, art, and sophisticated craftsmanship. The Neanderthal genome is similar to modern humans, and 1-4% of Eurasian genomes come from Neanderthals.
People of non-African descent are part of Neanderthals, according to a 2011 study in Molecular Biology and Evolution. The study is the first to suggest confirmation of human-Neanderthal interbreeding. Although Neanderthals are believed to have become extinct or absorbed into the human population around 28,000 BC, they are believed to have interbred with humans between 78,000 BC and 43,000 BC when humans began migrating out of Africa.
More Neanderthal Facts:
Despite the image of the dumb caveman dragging a club, Neanderthals weren’t all that different from humans at the time. They had the gene for language, they had music and art, and they were capable of sophisticated craftsmanship.
The Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010. Neanderthal genes were then found to be much closer to the genes of modern Eurasians than people from sub-Saharan Africa, and the Neanderthal genome in general was found to be extremely similar to modern human genome.
About 1-4 percent of the genome of the Eurasian people is thought to come from Neanderthals.
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