Didn’t modern humans, our homo sapiens ancestors, experience interbreeding with Neanderthals? I have heard that some humans today have certain Neanderthal characteristics .
Yes, they are in the Neanderthal Football League.................
Most people carry Neandertal genes, in about a slightly greater amount as they carry genes passed down from about 46 of their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.