{"id":77147,"date":"2021-07-26T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=77147"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T10:54:21","slug":"were-not-much-different-than-neanderthals-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/were-not-much-different-than-neanderthals-new-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re not much different than Neanderthals, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CORDIS-investigacion-adn-neandertal-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-77144 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CORDIS-investigacion-adn-neandertal-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CORDIS-investigacion-adn-neandertal-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CORDIS-investigacion-adn-neandertal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CORDIS-investigacion-adn-neandertal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CORDIS-investigacion-adn-neandertal-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CORDIS-investigacion-adn-neandertal-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-teaser\"><strong>Only a small fraction of human DNA is unique to modern humans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row c-article__below-teaser\">\n<div class=\"c-article__domains col-12 col-md-auto ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"c-article__domains-icons ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"c-domain-icon c-domain-icon--text\">\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">We like to think of ourselves as special in the human family tree. However, our genes seem to say otherwise. According to findings published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/7\/29\/eabc0776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Science Advances\u2019<\/a>, only 7 % of our DNA is unique to us and not shared by other early ancestors. \u201cThat\u2019s a pretty small percentage,\u201d co-author and University of California, Santa Cruz computational biologist Dr Nathan Schaefer told the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-4edeb2256900dd182f5cac5f26b8aa66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Associated Press\u2019<\/a>. \u201cThis kind of finding is why scientists are turning away from thinking that we humans are so vastly different from Neanderthals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<h3 class=\"c-article__title\">Sharing the remaining pieces of our genetic material with other human ancestors<\/h3>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">Findings also showed that just 1.5 % of our genome is unique to our species and shared amongst all people living today. Put another way, humans and their Neanderthal cousins share up to 98.5 % of DNA. It\u2019s this DNA that may offer the most important clues as to what really makes modern human beings different. The part of the modern human genome that is exclusively ours seems to be linked to the development of the nervous system. In addition, it seems that this shift didn\u2019t happen all at one time, as several waves of human-specific mutations took place over hundreds of thousands of years. \u201cWe can tell those regions of the genome are highly enriched for genes that have to do with neural development and brain function,\u201d explained co-author Dr Richard Green, also a computational biologist at the same university. \u201cBetter tools allow us to ask increasingly more detailed questions about human history and evolution,\u201d commented geneticist Prof. Joshua Akey, who wasn\u2019t involved in the research. The results emphasise \u201cthat we\u2019re actually a very young species,\u201d he added. \u201cNot that long ago, we shared the planet with other human lineages.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<h3 class=\"c-article__title\">Which genes belong uniquely to modern humans?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">The researchers used DNA extracted from fossil remains of extinct Neanderthals and Denisovans dating back to around 40 000 or 50 000 years ago as well as from 279 modern humans sampled from people all around the world. Denisovans were early humans who lived in Asia and were distantly related to Neanderthals. Both species are believed to have bred with early humans. They compared the modern human DNA to the two prehuman species. The research team developed a computer algorithm to estimate which genetic material came from the species from which both modern humans and Neanderthals originated and which from intermixing with them. The tool helped to differentiate what parts of the human genome lacked admixture (the result of interbreeding between two or more previously isolated populations within a species). \u201cThe evolutionary family tree shows there are regions of our genome that make us uniquely human,\u201d Dr Green told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/human-genome-overlaps-neanderthals-ancestors-2021-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Business Insider\u2019<\/a>. \u201cNow we have a catalog of those, and it\u2019s a surprisingly small fraction of the genome. More or less everywhere we look, admixture is not the exception at all, but rather the rule.\u201d It\u2019s not easy establishing which genes belong uniquely to modern humans. Genetic material from fossils together with modern technology should provide more clues about our past and how we came to be.<\/p>\n<h3>More information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/article\/id\/430477-trending-science-we-re-not-much-different-than-neanderthals-new-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CORDIS &#8211; News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a small fraction of human DNA is unique to modern humans. We like to think of ourselves as special in the human family tree. However, our genes seem to say otherwise. 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