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Modern human and Neanderthal genomes

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  1. David ReichNeutralMay 8, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Some genomic regions make a person closer to Neanderthals than to another modern human.

    in some places in our DNA, we're more closely related to Neanderthals than to each other.

    Listen at 1:21:59

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