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Yes. They are often referred to as cousins. Though we are not mainly descended from them, about 4% of modern European DNA derives from them.

They were probably mainly wiped out by climate change, and the second wave of migration from Africa inter-married with them.

Modern Africans who have not left Africa do not have Neanderthal DNA.

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