Some people don’t just have a caveman mentality; they may actually carry a little relic of the Stone Age in their DNA.
SURPRISING CONNECTION These three fragments of Neandertal bones yielded the first DNA evidence of human-Neandertal interbreeding. Max-Planck-Institute EVA
DISTANT RELATIVES People of European and Asian ancestry (woman, left) inherited roughly 1 to 4 percent of their DNA from Neandertals (reconstruction, right), genetic work suggests.
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