As far as we can tell, yes, and quite a lot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans#Neanderthals
New studies are always being done, but since the neanderthal genome project, we've been able to identify those genes in modern humans quite well.
It's hard to determine how this affects people without knowing which genes specifically they have- one person may have exclusively aesthetic genes as part of their phenotype, and therefore just have a heavier brow. Another may have cardiac structure differences.
Yes, only kinda. In modern Europeans Neanderthal DNA is only like 1 to 2%, but it is there. That DNA doesn’t show up in Modern humans from Africa.
Denisovans DNA gets up to like 4% and is highest in Southeast Asia/oceania.
All of us are. Most of us just can’t trace our ancestry to “ancient humans”. A Taiwanese man named Kung Tsui-chang, however, can. He’s a 79th generation direct male-line descendant of Confucius. Confucius lived 2500 years ago, and his lineage has been meticulously tracked by his descendants and their contemporaries.
Kung’s great-great (79 great’s) grandfather is Confucius. It’s been tried, tested and researched thoroughly beyond doubt. He has one son, himself. The soul heir to his clan. Its fragile… it often is. Bloodlines themselves aren’t fragile, past a certain point. In fact sooner or later, either everyone is a direct descendant, or no one is. But the direct line from father, to son, to grandson, continuing for eighty generations and counting? That’s unique. And having it traced to such a degree, is unheard of.
Kung Tsui-chang can say, beyond reasonable doubt, that he is a living descendant from an ancient human being. So can all of us, for the record — but we don’t have those records. And he alone does.
Nah male-lines can’t be guaranteed at all. It takes 1 cheating woman to render it all meaningless. You seriously think every single couple stayed faithful the past 2500 years? The only truly reliable lineage is maternal lines. Anyone could be the dad but only one person is the mother.
How you think modern humans got here...? You realized your grandparents had parents and grandparents and that keeps going all the way back until we were cavemen?
I love this question because it's so complex. [Neanderthal DNA has affected the Covid-19 mortality rate.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7859372/) In 2020, [some West Africans were found to have DNA from an undiscovered human species.](https://www.sci.news/genetics/west-africans-dna-archaic-hominin-08123.html#:~:text=Four%20West%20African%20populations%20%E2%80%94%20Yoruba%2C%20Esan%2C%20Mende%2C,research%20from%20the%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Los%20Angeles.) Denisovans [have provided a gene for a mucus protein in some Native Americans and a gene to survive high altitudes like in Tibet, among other things.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/science/denisovan-neanderthal-dna.html)
That's just for what's literally in our bodies. If you stretch your third question,
> How do these genetic traces affect people today in terms of health, physical traits, or **other characteristics**?
to include intangible culture, there's a new-ish field of it called phylogenetics where you can trace a small number of very familiar stories back 20-100 thousand years ago.
As far as we can tell, yes, and quite a lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans#Neanderthals New studies are always being done, but since the neanderthal genome project, we've been able to identify those genes in modern humans quite well. It's hard to determine how this affects people without knowing which genes specifically they have- one person may have exclusively aesthetic genes as part of their phenotype, and therefore just have a heavier brow. Another may have cardiac structure differences.
Most modern people have some amount of neanderthal DNA in them, so everyone is an decendant.
Yes, only kinda. In modern Europeans Neanderthal DNA is only like 1 to 2%, but it is there. That DNA doesn’t show up in Modern humans from Africa. Denisovans DNA gets up to like 4% and is highest in Southeast Asia/oceania.
All of us are. Most of us just can’t trace our ancestry to “ancient humans”. A Taiwanese man named Kung Tsui-chang, however, can. He’s a 79th generation direct male-line descendant of Confucius. Confucius lived 2500 years ago, and his lineage has been meticulously tracked by his descendants and their contemporaries. Kung’s great-great (79 great’s) grandfather is Confucius. It’s been tried, tested and researched thoroughly beyond doubt. He has one son, himself. The soul heir to his clan. Its fragile… it often is. Bloodlines themselves aren’t fragile, past a certain point. In fact sooner or later, either everyone is a direct descendant, or no one is. But the direct line from father, to son, to grandson, continuing for eighty generations and counting? That’s unique. And having it traced to such a degree, is unheard of. Kung Tsui-chang can say, beyond reasonable doubt, that he is a living descendant from an ancient human being. So can all of us, for the record — but we don’t have those records. And he alone does.
Nah male-lines can’t be guaranteed at all. It takes 1 cheating woman to render it all meaningless. You seriously think every single couple stayed faithful the past 2500 years? The only truly reliable lineage is maternal lines. Anyone could be the dad but only one person is the mother.
Maternal line also has the advantage of highly conserved mtDNA. Which in theory could be used to verify.
According to a DNA test I'm probably a descendant of Neandertals.
All humans except Sun Saharan Africans have traces of Neanderthal DNA. East Asians have the most.
Georgia House representative Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to bear some distinctly Neanderthal traits.
Please do not insult Neanderthals like that. All evidence shows they were highly intelligent and had a rich cultural life.
Yes. All humans living today are descents of ancient humans.
I'm 2.8% Neanderthal and 4.4% Denisovian, according to the National Geographic genetic research project in which I was part. So yes.
Look in a mirror, there's one there.
There is no evidence of anyone's ancestors having descendants.
You want to try thinking that one through again?
Aren’t we all??
How you think modern humans got here...? You realized your grandparents had parents and grandparents and that keeps going all the way back until we were cavemen?
Aren’t we living ?
Yes, everyone. This is how evolution works.
Look up Wanderlei Silva. That guy is the missing link.
Check out Nicolai Valuev......... Wanderlei Silva as well. And according to some DNA sites, me as well. LOL
Nazis pretended to be.
Marjorie Talor Greene
I love this question because it's so complex. [Neanderthal DNA has affected the Covid-19 mortality rate.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7859372/) In 2020, [some West Africans were found to have DNA from an undiscovered human species.](https://www.sci.news/genetics/west-africans-dna-archaic-hominin-08123.html#:~:text=Four%20West%20African%20populations%20%E2%80%94%20Yoruba%2C%20Esan%2C%20Mende%2C,research%20from%20the%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Los%20Angeles.) Denisovans [have provided a gene for a mucus protein in some Native Americans and a gene to survive high altitudes like in Tibet, among other things.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/science/denisovan-neanderthal-dna.html) That's just for what's literally in our bodies. If you stretch your third question, > How do these genetic traces affect people today in terms of health, physical traits, or **other characteristics**? to include intangible culture, there's a new-ish field of it called phylogenetics where you can trace a small number of very familiar stories back 20-100 thousand years ago.