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Right now, your heart is beating with help from DNA that dates back 47,000 years. Your immune system is fighting off disease thanks to genes inherited from long-extinct human relatives. And when you drift off to sleep tonight, ancient genetic material will quietly regulate your internal clock.

Take a look in the mirror—what you see isn’t purely modern Homo sapiens. Unless your ancestry traces exclusively to sub-Saharan Africa, your body carries the genetic fingerprints of extinct human species: the Neanderthals and Denisovans. These aren’t remote ancestors from millions of years ago. Their DNA entered our bloodline relatively recently—around 47,000 years ago—when early modern humans encountered these enigmatic relatives across Europe and Asia.