Clarifying that timeline narrows the possible range ... How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct, and why did modern ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

Ancient DNA is peeling back layers of the mystery surrounding modern humans’ trysts with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred ...

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The fresh dating timeline puts the remains roughly 40,000 ... Child remains shows that remains of a child with both human and Neanderthal features was from tens of thousands of years after when ...

Clarifying that timeline narrows the possible range ... How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct, and why did modern ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during ... Thursday in the journals Science and Nature. To pin down the timeline, researchers peeked at some of the oldest human genes from ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding between ...