Like many people who research their ancestry, I discovered what it could mean to have a DNA connection to Neanderthals.

Compelling evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange sharing technology, lifestyles, and burial customs   PhysOrg - March 11, 2025

Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago, but there has never been more of their DNA on Earth   The Conversation - September 1, 2022

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize for medicine after sequencing first Neanderthal genome and discovered that Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals   CNN - October 3, 2022