page_title: Neanderthal genetics
hierarchical_section_title: Neanderthal genetics
caption_attribution_description: English: Reconstruction of Neanderthal woman (makeup by Morten Jacobsen)
context_page_description: Genetic studies on Neanderthal ancient DNA became possible in the late 1990s.
  The Neanderthal genome project, established in 2006, presented the first fully sequenced Neanderthal genome in 2013.
  Since 2005, evidence for substantial admixture of Neanderthals DNA in modern populations has accumulated.
  The divergence time between the Neanderthal and modern human lineages is estimated at between 750,000 and 400,000 years ago.
  The more recent time depth has been suggested by Endicott et al.
  and Rieux et al.
  A significantly deeper time of separation, combined with repeated early admixture events, was calculated by Rogers et al.
  On July 3, 2020, one lone scientist reported finding that a major genetic risk factor of the Covid-19 virus was inherited from archaic Neanderthals 60,000 years ago.
context_section_description: Genetic studies on Neanderthal ancient DNA became possible in the late 1990s.
  The Neanderthal genome project, established in 2006, presented the first fully sequenced Neanderthal genome in 2013.
  Since 2005, evidence for substantial admixture of Neanderthals DNA in modern populations has accumulated.
  The divergence time between the Neanderthal and modern human lineages is estimated at between 750,000 and 400,000 years ago.
  The more recent time depth has been suggested by Endicott et al. (2010)
  and Rieux et al. (2014)
  A significantly deeper time of separation, combined with repeated early admixture events, was calculated by Rogers et al. (2017).
  On July 3, 2020, one lone scientist reported finding that a major genetic risk factor of the Covid-19 virus was inherited from archaic Neanderthals 60,000 years ago.
caption: Reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman.[1]
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