Most people believe that Neanderthals have become extinct and have no effect on our current lives, but this information is incorrect. Previous studies have found that 1.8 to 2.6 percent of the DNA of most people comes from Neanderthals
According to Big Think, a new study also revealed how Neanderthals still have an impact on our lives. "He has succeeded in the genetic adaptation that prevented mankind from deadly viruses and then extinction."
The recent study found that a sexual encounter between primitive man and Homo sapiens makes all people genetically linked, explaining that humans were on their way to leave Africa in the direction of Eurasia before they met Neanderthal.
"Sexual encounters that took place between 500,000 and 1 million years ago produced viable offspring and prevented humanity from extinction," she said.
Neanderthals evolved genes capable of fighting deadly diseases and viruses, which made them transmit to the sensible person at that sexual encounter.
The author of the study, David Enard, of the University of Arizona, the American that the wise man resorted to mating in order to protect himself and survival. "Of course, things did not go smoothly at first when they first met."
A list of more than 4,500 modern human genes was created in order to compare them with a database of neanderthals.
The scientists found a match in 152 genes between modern humans and nandertal.
The researchers believe that these genes derived from primitive humans are fighting some viruses today, such as hepatitis, HIV and influenza, which protected him from extinction thousands of years ago.
