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The Evolution of Neanderthals
Around 2010, you started getting evidence for something called archaic introgression. I mean, basically you got sequences of Neanderthals and you saw that it was in a lot of modern humans. So we obviously intermixed with them, you know, and there's various technical reasons. But anyway, yeah, so with the Neanderthals, basically, they seem way more human looking at their genome than we were expecting.