And that 2% is NOT necessarily the same 2% across all of us. So your 2% and mine might be off by 1/2%, so between us, we have 2.5% of the Neanderthal genome.
Scientists now say that up to 70% of the Neanderthal genome is found within the current living population of homo sapiens!
From a two hour PBS special on the latest research on Neanderthals, from this past October:
Watch it here: https://www.pbs.org/program/neanderthal/
You might have to put in your local PBS Station web site to watch.
I’m not sure you can watch it without local PBS membership.
I just watched it on Amazon Prime, however.
Long url, sorry:
I'm hungry. I'm gonna go club something and cook it on a spit! ;^)