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07 May 2010 @ 7:48 AM
The first modern humans to leave Africa about 80,000 years ago encountered Neanderthal settlements in the Middle East and, on at least some occasions, chose to make love instead of war, according to an international team of scientists who have pieced together the genetic code of humanity’s closest relatives.
Traces of that ancient DNA live on in most human beings today, the researchers report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.
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Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to that of people, according to the analysis, which involved dozens of researchers.
Neanderthals R Us. Insert your own joke about summer movies here.
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