Game of her to admit it

National Geographic

     "Gene sequencing studies have shown that people of European and Asian descent today carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, less than 2 percent of their total genome on average.  That may seem like an insignificant amount, but it's not the same 2 percent from one person to the next:  taken together, up to 40 percent of the Neanderthal genome lives on. . . .  Intriguingly, the modern Y chromosome, which determines maleness, appears to be completely free of Neanderthal DNA."

     Natalie Angier, "Serengeti on the Seine," a review of Europe:  a natural history, by Tim Flannery, with Luigi Boitani (Atlantic Monthly, 2019), The New York review of books 66, no. 8 (May 9, 2019):  28 (27-28).