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Emily Cooke

'More Neanderthal than human': How your health may depend on DNA from our long-lost ancestors

Illustration of an early modern man embracing a Neanderthal woman. They appear to be in a forest at night. The moonlight is shining through the trees just behind them.

The group had traveled for thousands of miles, crossing Africa and the Middle East until finally reaching the dimly lit forests of the new continent. They were long-vanished members of our modern human tribe, and among the first Homo sapiens to enter Europe.

There, these people would likely have encountered their distant cousins: Neanderthals. 

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