Your Nose Shape May Be Neanderthal DNA

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Neanderthal DNA still shapes modern human faces. When our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia, genes for cold-adapted nasal structures were passed down and selected for through natural selection. Roughly 40,000 years later, your nose may still carry that Ice Age engineering.

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