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To: exDemMom
I don't believe there is any sample of Neandertal hair, just their genes for hair color. DNA is a match -- 23 chromosome pairs. If you get your DNA done by 23andMe or Ancestry.com, etc, you have the option of checking (after you get your results) for archaic DNA.
There is some debate as to whether they were a distinct species of the Homo genus (Homo neanderthalensis) or a subspecies of Homo sapiens. *

9 posted on 03/26/2018 4:10:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

From 23andme, they noted that I’ve got a .1-percent bit of Neandertal in me. Course, they also said I had a .2-percent Afghan/Pakistan DNA element as well....which really stretches the imagination a bit to figure how that got into the mix.


19 posted on 03/26/2018 6:42:43 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting. I’ve had a DNA analysis from ancestry.com, but I haven’t seen any option to have archaic DNA content analyzed.


38 posted on 03/26/2018 4:08:57 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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