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What A Brain Organoid Grown With Neanderthal DNA Tells Us About Modern Humans

A brain organoid grown with Neanderthal DNA reveals how evolution shaped the brains of modern humans and adds to evidence that brain differences helped us survive while our human cousins went extinct.

[Copyright 2021 NPR]

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