Thursday, May 6, 2010

Neanderthal genes in us

Scientist has found that there are people that might have Neanderthal genes because they could have mixed in with our inheritance. The result comes from analysis of the Neanderthal genome the "instruction manual" describing how these ancient humans was put together. The genomes of 1% to 4% of people in Eurasia come from Neanderthals. The study confirms the living humans overwhelmingly trace their ancestry to a small population of Africans who later spread out across the world. They said that they did not extinct because there is a small group of people from Asia, Europe, and Oceania that appeared to be small but are not. There are not totally extinct in some of us they live on, just a little.
I never knew this could happen to the human race especially to the Homo sapiens. I guess what the researchers say might be true because we really don’t know if the Neanderthals extinct or if they mixed in with us and there Neanderthals that didn’t mix died off. I think this is cool because there is people that now share genes with ancient Ancestors and if we know that they do we could do studies on them to find out what is the difference. Hopefully this is good to all of us because don’t want it to happen where our inheritance becomes extinct like what supposedly happened to them. But I think this does not make a difference because we mostly are alike in everything and that’s good.

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