Modern humans carry DNA of ancient cousins

Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Human interbreeding with our ancient evolutionary cousins endowed the human gene pool with beneficial versions of immune system genes, U.S. researchers say.

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