Neanderthals live on in some

BBC News

According to new research, between one and four percent of the genome of Eurasian people comes from the Neanderthals, an extinct human species or subspecies inhabiting Europe and Asia more than 100,000 years ago. The study also confirms that modern humans are descended from a small population of Africans who spread around the world between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago.

This new study reveals that many more people than previously thought possess Neanderthal ancestry. The implication is that, though Neanderthals were a separate line of humans, there was some interbreeding between them and Homo sapiens in the past.