Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals
Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...
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Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred within the past 50,000 years
The Homo sapiens fossils found beneath Ranis Castle in central Germany were already the oldest evidence of our species in northern Europe. Now, these ancient German fossils have torn up the timeline ...
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Oldest modern human genomes suggest Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred over 7,000 years
One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes so far sequenced ... and where Neanderthal DNA started showing up in the timeline. They found that the period of interbreeding began ...