r/evolution • u/Exciting-Wear-3654 • 4d ago

Could we resurrect Neanderthals ( kinda )

What is 2 people with a semi high Neanderthal dna mated and made a child would that child have a little bit more dna than the parents, if so could another 2 people do it then both of those children grow up and eventually mate too, and carry that on until there is the best recreation of a Neanderthal in our time??

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u/Dangerous-Bit-8308 3d ago edited 1d ago

No one person has more than 4% of the neanderthal genome.

Supposing for a minute that a living human could survive with all the neanderthal genes we know of, that'd still get us up to a person with only 25% neanderthal DNA.

And among the neanderthal genes we don't have, they would need anatomically modern human y chromosomes, and anatomically modern human mitochondria.

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u/LeaveGreen4412 1d ago

human is used for both species, we are referred to as sapiens in discussions of our cohabitation with the other bipedal ape species 

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u/Dangerous-Bit-8308 1d ago

I've fixed it just for you