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, may have been the product of natural selection as ancient humans adapted to colder climates after leaving Africa.
"Here, we find that some DNA inherited from Neanderthals influences the shape of our faces. This could have been helpful to our ancestors, as it has been passed down for thousands of generations." The researchers newly identified 33 genome regions associated with face shape, 26 of which they were able to replicate in comparisons with data from other ethnicities using participants in east Asia, Europe, or Africa., the researchers found that many people in their study with Native American ancestry hadin this gene that was inherited from the Neanderthals, contributing to increased nasal height.
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