Friday, November 7, 2014

Fossil DNA confirms interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals

Fossil DNA confirms interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals | Daily Mail Online:
A genome taken from a 36,000-year-old skeleton (skull pictured) has shed new light on the period of interbreeding between Neanderthals and humans. The study of DNA  shows that the genes of the earliest inhabitants of the continent survived the Ice Age, helping sow the seed for the modern-day population
"Anthropologists have long puzzled over how much contact Neanderthals had with modern humans and when this may have occured. Now, a genome taken from a 36,000-year-old skeleton has shed new light on the period of interbreeding between the two species."

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