Paying a heavy price for loving the Neanderthals | Cosmos

"Somewhere between 1.5% and 2.1% of your genome was inherited from the Neanderthals, assuming your ancestry was non-African of course. "

"Don’t fret if you’re ancestry is African though, you’re ancestors found another human species or two to bonk.

Surprisingly, the genomes of the West African Biaka and Baka (so-called ‘pygmy’) people have revealed DNA from a completely unknown species, which found its way into the human genome only 9,000 years ago.

Other studies have found much wider evidence for interbreeding across Africa, occurring sometime around 35,000 years ago. "

Neanderthal DNA made us smarter.

We're not different "races", we're different species.

"Everyone but the Africans have Neanderthal DNA" The Africans interbred with a DIFFERENT "pre-human".

We're not the same.