Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by our own species
A new study finds traces of two ancient hybridization episodes in the Neanderthal genome, 250,000 and 120,000 years ago, showing that modern humans left Africa in several waves, rather than about 50,000 years ago as previously thought.
For most of our species’ history, we were just one of many groups of hominids. And if there’s one thing that comparative studies of ancient and modern DNA have made clear, it’s that different lineages…
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