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.