Why You Don’t Have Much Neanderthal DNA in Your Genome



By STEPH YIN

As a large population of modern humans interbred with a smaller number of Neanderthals, natural selection purged Neanderthal DNA from the genomes of their descendants.

Published: November 8, 2016 at 01:00AM

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