Yes. But that's not what the article was about. Modern humans and Neanderthalians share much more genetic material than the 4% the article talked about.
The 4% is the proportion of genetic material we inherited from them. And that's an interesting and non-trivial thing.
So Neanderthalians were some of our ancestors. But bananas weren't.
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But you are not a descendant of bananas or most fish.
We share a common ancestor
Yes. But that's not what the article was about. Modern humans and Neanderthalians share much more genetic material than the 4% the article talked about.
The 4% is the proportion of genetic material we inherited from them. And that's an interesting and non-trivial thing.
So Neanderthalians were some of our ancestors. But bananas weren't.
Speciation paradox
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