Illustration of modern humans who lived in Europe about 45,000 years ago
Tom Bjorklund
Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of about 7,000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That’s according to two studies that tracked in unprecedented detail how these two hominins hybridized.
“The majority of Neanderthal gene flow…occurred over a single, shared, long period of time,” he says. priya muajani at the University of California, Berkeley.
Research confirms that modern humans acquired important genetic mutations through admixture with Neanderthals.
Source: www.newscientist.com
