So I was watching this [documentary](https://youtu.be/8p8tFcIQ8K4?si=N48hW93UoRJfKk5w) on NEANDERTHALS and needed some explanation on how the scientists figured out the following.
1. Groups of Neanderthals would meet regularly at certain places once a year and exchange information/people. There are evidences in the sidron cave in Spain that they would exchange women too.
2. If Neanderthals inbred with Homo Sapiens, then why are we saying Neanderthals got extinct slowly. Should’t some of us have Neanderthals genes as well?
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I can answer question 2. There is the mixing of the DNA. Neandertal DNA has been mapped so we can measure the amount in modern humans. The result is 1-4% Neandertal DNA in European and Asian populations.
2022 noble prize in medicine was given to Svante Pääbo that wa the lad for the team that fist mapped Neanderthal DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine
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