Do you have any Neanderthal in you? Would you like some?

Apparently, if your DNA is non-African derived, you’re also part Neanderthal:

…all non-Africans – be they from France, China or Papua New Guinea – share the same amount of Neanderthal DNA, suggesting that interbreeding occurred before those populations split. The timing makes the Middle East the likeliest place where humans leaving Africa and resident Neanderthals did the deed.

Ahhh, how I’d love to go back in time and tell this to the eugenicists.

via BoingBoing

Read the full article on New Scientist

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