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Neandertals, our closest evolutionary relative, lived in parts of Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. The great question has always been, did they interbreed with our homo sapiens ancestors, and is there living evidence of Neandertal genes in present-day humans? David Reich, Associate Professor Department of Genetics at Harvard, will discuss comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of present-day humans from different parts of the world - which suggest that genes were in fact passed from Neandertals to the ancestors of non-Africans.

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