Previous genetic studies have shown that these two groups exchanged genes, and even today, 40,000 years after the last Neanderthals disappeared, between two and six percent of the modern human genome is of Neanderthal origin.
Recent research suggests that NeanderthalDNA may be linked to headaches in modern humans ... When our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, they passed on their genes to modern humans, resulting in a ...
Although they lacked modern gadgets, their lives had many of the things we value today ... They made music with handmade instruments Stone Age humans made flutes from bird bones and mammoth ivory around 43,000 years ago.