Genetic analysis reveals how the Neanderthals went extinct

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  An analysis of the DNA of 10 different Neanderthal people is helping to tell the story of the decline,

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  the ultimate extinction of our ancient.

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  Human relatives.

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  And it's fair to say really, isn't it, that we are obsessed with our extinct relatives?

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  We are.

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  Well, we're obsessed.

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  We feel an affinity with, especially the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, our close relatives.

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  And it 's not just that we carry some of their DNA with us,

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  which we do, and we 'll get into that, but it 's the idea that not really that long

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  ago there were other species of humans around.

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  But that's the joy of this, of DNA work, that it brings what was that of each, into the realm of science and analysis.

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