Neandertals Bred With Humans

A recent study shows that neandertal's and humans likely interbred. It came as a surpise to researchers, as they had long been looking for evidence of this and had never found it. It is estimated that 1 to 4 percent of the DNA of people from Europe and Asia is neandertal DNA. This has long been studied, as it gives a better picture of how we evolved. Neandertal's lived in that area until they were killed off about 30,000 years ago. The scientists expected to find no related DNA, this result was suprising. Some did predict the result, however. One odd fact is that people living in islands like New Guinea were found to have as much neandertal DNA as people from Europe or Asia, when neandertal's never lived there. At least one leading scientist now believes that we cannot classify neandertal's as different from us. He believes that we are essentially the same race. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58936/title/Neandertal_genome_yields_evidence_of_interbreeding_with_humans