PR CIREBON — What makes human unique? Results research shows only 7 percent DNA human modern have uniqueness.
Scientists in research about it has taken another step towards solving the eternal mystery with a new tool that allows a more precise comparison between DNA human modern and DNA ancestors we are extinct.
Only 7 percent of DNA human uniquely shared with human other, and not owned by ancestors another beginning, according to a research published Friday, July 16, 2021, in the journal Science Advances.
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“That’s a pretty small percentage. Findings like this are why scientists are turning away from thinking that we human very different from Neanderthals,” said Nathan Schaefer, a University of California computational biologist and co-author of the new paper PikiranRakyat.Cirebon.com from the Associated Press.
In which, the Associated Press Department of Health and Science receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.
This research refers to DNA extracted from the now-extinct fossilized remains of Neanderthals and Denisovans dating to about 40,000 or 50,000 years ago, as well as from 279 people modern from all over the world.
Scientists already know that people modern share some DNA with Neanderthals, but different people share a part through different.
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