6.The traces are still there, with modern Europeans having 1-2% of Neanderthal DNA and some people in Asia and Australasia as much as 6% of Denisovan DNA.Dr Paabo's career is, then, a tour de force of scientific detection.
7.However, it is by far the largest family, accounting for the languages of almost half of the modern world's population, including those of most of Europe, North and South America, Australasia, the Iranian plateau and much of South Asia.