{"id":543505,"date":"2025-03-20T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=543505"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:09:27","slug":"neanderthals-were-a-little-bit-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/neanderthals-were-a-little-bit-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthals were a little bit human"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_543506\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-543506 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RPF-notas-neandertal-2024-08-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RPF-notas-neandertal-2024-08-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RPF-notas-neandertal-2024-08-1140-250x149.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RPF-notas-neandertal-2024-08-1140-700x418.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RPF-notas-neandertal-2024-08-1140-120x72.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Justin Tallis\u2009\/\u2009AFP v\u00eda Getty Images<\/span>Neanderthal skull and artistic depiction: inheritance of genes allowed humans to survive at higher latitudes<span class=\"media-credits\">Justin Tallis\u2009\/\u2009AFP v\u00eda Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Between 2.5% and 3.7% of the Neanderthal (<em>Homo neanderthalensis<\/em>) genome may have come from its sister species, the modern man (<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>), according to scientists from Southeast University in Nanjing, China, and Princeton University, USA. They examined the genomes of 2,000 modern humans and the only three preserved Neanderthal specimens, which are 52,000, 80,000, and 120,000 years old. The first and most significant encounter between the two species may have occurred earlier than previously thought \u2014 around 200,000 years ago \u2014 when groups of <em>H. sapiens<\/em> migrating from Africa arrived in Europe and had children with the Neanderthals, which have now been extinct for over 40,000 years. It has long been known that the ancestors of modern humans and Neanderthals interbred and that Neanderthals gave us essential genes that enabled us to live at the highest latitudes of the planet. The gene flow from <em>H. sapiens<\/em> to Neanderthals, however, had not yet been measured. What is not known is why one lineage survived and the other did not, after having begun their own evolutionary paths some 500,000 years ago (<em>LiveScience<\/em>, July 11; <em>Science<\/em> and <em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, July 12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Neanderthal genes may have come from modern humans","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[231,237],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-543505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-evolution","tag-genetics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543510,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543505\/revisions\/543510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543505"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=543505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}