The Fate of Neanderthal Genes
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 09:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 years ago, but little pieces of them live on in the form of DNA sequences scattered through the modern human genome. A new study by geneticists at the University of California, Davis, shows why these traces of our closest relatives are slowly being removed by natural selection. “On average, there […]