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

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 19:21 in Biology & Nature

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.

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