![]() This indicates that, “Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred during their millennia of coexistence. ![]() The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 2022 to Svante Pääbo for work done while at the Max Planck Institute in Germany to extract and study the DNA of Neanderthals, which led, among other things, to the discovery that Neanderthal DNA is present in the genomes of modern humans as well ( here).Ĭomparative analyses by Pääbo and his colleagues showed that “DNA sequences from Neanderthals were more similar to sequences from contemporary humans originating from Europe or Asia than to contemporary humans originating from Africa” according to an article by the Nobel Organisation which awards the prizes ( here ). ![]() ![]() Neanderthals are the closest extinct human relatives, and hundreds of sets of their skeletal remains have been unearthed in Europe and Eurasia showing that they were small compared with modern humans: “Their bodies were shorter and stockier than ours, another adaptation to living in cold environments,” the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History explained in a blog article ( here).Ĭontrary to the online claims, Neanderthal DNA has been extracted from these skeletal remains and analysed extensively. ![]()
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