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artcher [175]
3 years ago
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Modern europeans may have acquired genes that helped them adapt to the cold and absorb more vitamin d through interbreeding with

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notsponge [240]3 years ago
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Around 100,000 years ago there was a second hominine species closely related to modern humans,  Homo <span><span>neanderthalensis,</span><span> or commonly called the Neanderthal</span>.</span> Recent studies of neanderthal DNA have shown that there is 3-4% of their genes in modern humans outside of Africa, mostly from Europe, including the ones for adapting to the cold and vitamin D absorption. 
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