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Article: Modern humans and Neanderthals may have interbred.(Brief article)
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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A collection of human bones discovered in a cave in Romania during the 1950s has led a group of Romanian and US scientists to suggest that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred as Homo sapiens spread across Europe 35,000 years ago.
While the 30,000-year-old bones are largely characteristic of modern humans, they also show some distinctly Neanderthal traits, according to team member Erik Trinkaus of ...