Neanderthal Museum (Mettman, Germany)
- About 2% of our genes are shared with Neanderthals.
- But some populations have slightly more Neanderthal in them, and it has been puzzling scientists.
- By looking at how human genomes' evolved, scientists hope to understand the history of Neanderthals' sexual conquests.
Most of us have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA.
Far from being the lumbering brutes that we once thought they were, a slew of recent studies suggest Neanderthals not only interacted with Homo sapiens, but also had children with them.