At least, unless you're of 100 percent sub-Saharan African heritage, that is. Investigation of the Neanderthal genome by a group led by Svante Paabo says the rest of us H. sapiens is 1-4 percent Neanderthal.
However, the claim is not without controversy on a number of grounds, namely on when the interbreeding would have happened, re the archaeological record.
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