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Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans: What We Inherited
Most people outside Africa carry 1 to 2 percent Neanderthal DNA. Here is how it arrived and what it seems to do.
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How Long Can DNA Last? From Mammoths to Neanderthals
DNA has a measured half-life of 521 years in one famous study, yet genomes more than a million years old have been…