Neanderthals and redheads
Some Neanderthals were probably redheads, a new genetic study has suggested.
The experts that carried out the research, whose results were published in Science journal, extracted DNA from the remains of two Neanderthals and they conserved part of an important gene called MC1R.
Neanderthal Men are classified as a Homo genus, and they inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia during the Paleolithic period.
In modern people, a change or mutation in this gene produces the red hair but, until now, no one knew what hair colour our extinct relatives had.
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