New evidence on Neanderthal mixing
Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 05:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
New research on a 45,000-year-old Siberian thighbone has narrowed the window of time when humans and Neanderthals interbred to between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, and has shown that modern humans reached northern Eurasia substantially earlier than some scientists thought.