New study finds Neanderthal DNA in Africans
New study finds Neanderthal DNA in Africans The recent findings challenge the pre-existing theory which suggest that ancestors of modern humans evolved and spread out from the African continent into other parts of the globe somewhere around 60,000 to 80,000 years ago.
A new study published on Thursday in the journal Cell shows that people of African origin carry more Neanderthals DNA than previously estimated by scientists. Scientists have previously detected close…