Neanderthal genome shows early human interbreeding, inbreeding
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 13:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.