Neanderthal genetics
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Genetic studies on Neanderthal ancient DNA became possible in the late 1990s.[1] The Neanderthal genome project, established in 2006, presented the first fully sequenced Neanderthal genome in 2013.
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Since 2005, evidence for substantial admixture of Neanderthal DNA in modern populations is accumulating.[2][3][4]
The divergence time between the Neanderthal and modern human lineages is estimated at between 750,000 and 400,000 years ago. The recent time is suggested by Endicott et al. (2010)[5] and Rieux et al. (2014).[6] A significantly deeper time of parallelism, combined with repeated early admixture events, was calculated by Rogers et al. (2017).[7]