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Nonetheless, some genes may have helped modern humans adapt to the environment. The putatively Neanderthal Val92Met variant of the MC1R gene may be weakly associated with red hair and UV radiation sensitivity. [54] This variant is primarily found in East Asian populations (especially Taiwanese indigenous peoples) rather than Europeans. [55]
Scientists have known since the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010 that early humans interbred with Neanderthals, a bombshell revelation that bequeathed a genetic legacy still ...
The DNA in the fossils tell the story of the individuals, how they are related to each other and their migration patterns. Even after our successful interbreeding with Neanderthals, our population ...
The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a timeline of when that occurred and when ancient humans left Africa.
Conversely, significant rates of modern human gene flow into Neanderthals occurred—of the three examined lineages—for only the Altai Neanderthal (0.1–2.1%), suggesting that modern human gene flow into Neanderthals mainly took place after the separation of the Altai Neanderthals from the El Sidrón and Vindija Neanderthals that occurred ...
The Denisovan genome shares more derived alleles with the Altai Neanderthal genome from Siberia than with the Vindija Cave Neanderthal genome from Croatia or the Mezmaiskaya cave Neanderthal genome from the Caucasus, suggesting that the gene flow came from a population that was more closely related to the local Altai Neanderthals. [59]
Interbreeding between the two populations left Eurasians with many genes inherited from their Neanderthal ancestors, which today make up between 1 and 2 per cent of our total genome, researchers said.
In all, approximately 20% of the Neanderthal genome appears to have survived in the modern human gene pool. [151] This Neanderthal DNA may descend primarily from the children of female modern humans and male Neanderthals. [152] [153] Due to their low population and proliferation of deleterious mutations, many Neanderthal genes were probably ...