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Article: Humans and Neanderthals may have interbred, but had no hybrids
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 6, 2007
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Washington, Dec. 6 -- A new study has suggested that humans may have interbred with Neanderthals, but there were no hybrids that emerged as a result.
The study was a result of the discovery of a 29,000 year-old Romanian skull called Cioclovina Calvaria, which is one of the oldest fossils in Europe with modern human features.
This finding led some experts to suspect that the fossil was a cross between a Neanderthal and a modern human.
But when Katerina Harvati, a senior researcher in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and her colleagues took detailed 3-D ...