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Human Interactions
DiscoveriesDNA evidence indicates Neanderthals didn’t go extinct – were absorbed into today’s human ancestry
Our ancestors split from the Neanderthal family tree around 600,000 years ago and developed modern characteristics about 250,000 years ago
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