London: It seems that there's a little bit of Neanderthal in all of us, for scientists have claimed that interbreeding with the species may have helped in boosting the brainpower and immune system of modern humans.
A team, led by Peter Parham of Stanford University, says that the interbreeding with Neanderthals actually gave human ancestors a readymade cocktail of DNA invaluable in fighting diseases common in northern climates.
This, in turn, vastly sped up our evolution, and gave people the strength and resilience needed to populate the world, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
For their study, Prof Parham and his team focused on a family of 200-plus genes called human leukocyte antigens that are key to the workings of the immune system. They showed that some of our HLA genes are identical to those that were found in Neanderthals....
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