Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago

Re:Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Eu... by hmm37 on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:21AM (#39217615)

East Asians apparently have a higher percentage of Neanderthal dna than Europeans, with it going as high as 4%. It's hard to believe that at 2% it's greater than 99% of people, since 2% seems rather average for the average East Asian and the East Asian population being 1.7B or so. East Asians also have Denisovans dna as well.

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Re:Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Eu... by MichaelZuo on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:33AM (#39217775)

I believe 23andme rounds down, so I could be at 2.49% and it would still show 2%. Anyways it's just a fun statistic based on probably not a proportionally representative sample of the entire human population, but what they have on hand.

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