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From the quoted article:

- "modern Europeans and East Asians apparently inherited about 2% of their DNA from Neanderthals"

- "African individuals on average had [...] more Neanderthal DNA than previously thought—about [...] 0.3% of their genome."

So the article seems to confirm a 10x difference in Neanderthals DNA, which might be significant. It's also unclear what they mean by "Africans, did the same include, e.g. Egyptians of Greek descent?




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