That Explains My Red-Neck Cousins

New study on the human genetic inheritance:  Neanderthals are alive and well, thank you.

We have met Neanderthal and he is us — at least a little.
 
The most detailed look yet at the Neanderthal genome helps answer one of the most debated questions in anthropology: Did Neanderthals and modern humans mate?

The answer is yes, there is at least some cave man biology in most of us. Between 1 percent and 4 percent of g

I like this bit:

Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, who has long argued that Neanderthals contributed to the human genome, welcomed the study, commenting that now researchers "can get on to other things than who was having sex with who in the Pleistocene."

Of course, there are always those who worry about who is having sex with who.  They haven't quite figured out that it's none of their business.  (And no, that's not aimed at Joe Jervis.)