Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

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and compared them to good quality DNA sequences from a few Neanderthals and 275 people today with very little Neanderthal ...

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared history.

"The Neanderthal DNA they carry could therefore have been introduced by a separate event from that which introduced the Neanderthal DNA identified in all present-day Out-of-Africa populations." ...

Several scientific studies confirm that both species coexisted for seven millennia and even reproduced among themselves.

“It suggests that hybrid individuals who had Neanderthal DNA in these regions were substantially less fit, likely to due to severe disease, lethality, or infertility,” Capra said via emai ...