Stories of Neanderthals continue to haunt scientists in many ways, and now they suggest that an influx of Neanderthal genes may have boosted the immunity of modern human populations in Europe; the scientists only look at European population migrating from Africa some tens of thousands of years ago.

Evolutionary biologists Dmitri Petrov of Stanford University, and David Enard of the University of Arizona, are of a peculiar opinion that ‘interbreeding of early humans could have exchanged genes that offered some resistance to infections’. They found ‘genes inherited from Neanderthals by modern Europeans react with RNA viruses such as HIV, influenza A, and hepatitis C, which indicates the genes may have helped modern human ancestors combat ancient RNA viruses’. The examination of the sequenced genome of a Neanderthal man who lived in Siberia some 50,000 years ago showed that he carried stretches of modern human DNA that corresponded with human-virus-interacting proteins. Archaeological News flashed the news quoting from The Atlantic on 05.10.2018.

How our eminent scientists are ignorant of the ancient world and intermixing of its tribes can be seen from this research finding.