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The Neanderthals live on in us

DNA is writing the missing pages of Neanderthal history.

DNA evidence now shows that there is a little Neanderthal in most modern humans. These lifelike models of the Neanderthal, left, and a modern human, show some of the different characteristics of each. Credit: THE TRUSTEES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON COURTESY OF KENNIS&KENNIS