The equivalent of 160 million FTE Neanderthals walking the earth today

From What Neanderthals meant to you, what you mean to Neanderthals by Razib Khan.  The subheading is Modern human-Neanderthal interrelatedness grows curiouser and curiouser.  

An extended update of our evolving understanding of the history and our genealogy with Neanderthals.  

Interesting throughout but I did especially enjoy this additional way of looking at the repercussions of our joint ancestry with Neanderthals.  Not wrong, I just had never thought of it this way before.

After more than a century, it is clear that our view of our Neanderthal cousins has trod a long and rocky road, as liable to detour into stray cultural fashions and fads as it was subject to being rerouted by hard science. But with ancient DNA and its surfeit of data, the decades of debate about whether Neanderthals were our ancestors has come to a close, replaced by a more informed exploration of their role in our evolution. Now that we know we are all Neanderthals at least at a trace level, the creativity and flexibility of their culture have wrested focus away from titillating depictions of brute Neanderthals as a warped mirror upon our own species. And it’s a compelling topic, even for the most self-interested modern human. Consider that a simple calculation of the quantity of Neanderthal DNA present in modern humans would be equivalent to 160 million pure Neanderthals walking the earth today, more, in fact, than at any other time in the planet’s history. The Neanderthal heyday is long millennia behind us, but who they were precisely continues to matter.