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The New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule is expected to help scientists better understand what conditions were like when our solar system formed billions of years ago.

Study has found that a unique ability of homo sapiens to adapt to 'extreme' environments around the world, where other species such as the Neanderthals perished may have helped us become the last surviving hominins on the planet.

This is remarkable because the M haplogroup is effectively absent in modern Europeans but is extremely common in modern Asian, Australasian, and Native American populations.

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