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Originally Posted by JonDuke
My dad bought me something similar last month.
National Geographics' "The Genographic Project"
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Yeah, I did that one a year of two ago. It doesn't purport to give any medical information though. Mine was pretty run of the mill British except for 3.6% Denisovan who were contemporaries of the (2.0% for me) Neanderthal. Apparently almost all modern humans have some of this ancestry, so there was interbreeding going on.
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As our modern human ancestors migrated through Eurasia, they met other hominin species and interbred. These “cousin” species, Neanderthal and Denisovan, are now extinct, but the genetic makeup of nearly everyone born outside of Africa today includes 1 to 4 percent DNA from these other hominins, living relics of ancient encounters.
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