Neanderthals and Humans First Mated 50,000 Years Ago, DNA Reveals

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 12:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The DNA from a 45,000-year-old bone of a man from Siberia is helping to pinpoint when modern humans and Neanderthals first interbred, researchers say. The man was born thousands of years after such interspecies mating occurred.

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