/ Natural selection Content for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis en /news/fate-neanderthal-genes <p>The Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 years ago, but little pieces of them live on in the form of DNA sequences scattered through the modern human genome. A new study by geneticists at the University of California, Davis, shows why these traces of our closest relatives are slowly being removed by natural selection.</p> November 08, 2016 - 12:14pm Andy Fell /news/fate-neanderthal-genes