When this discovery of Neanderthal genes in humans was first announced in 2010, the world was shocked because until then we had considered Neanderthals quite inferior to us, and as belonging to a different species that would not have been able to reproduce with us. Now, of course, we know that we interbred not just with Neanderthals but with Denisovans as well, and that this may not be the full story either. In Africa and elsewhere too, research is throwing up the increasing likelihood that there were more interbreeding events between modern humans and our genetic cousins, some of whom we may
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