A little bit of neanderthal ..

… in lot of us…:wink:

*Many people alive today possess some Neanderthal ancestry, according to a landmark scientific study.

They are not totally extinct. In some of us they live on, a little bit," said Professor Svante Paabo, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. *

From BBC.

There’s a discussion about it in GQ: I can has Neanderthal genes? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board

And, by the way, his name is spelled Pääbo.