Thursday, May 6, 2010

So, who's the kid with the prominent brow ridge?

A new study in Science details the results of a draft of the Neanderthal genome, based on DNA extracted from 40,000 year old bones found in Croatia. The results indicate a strong possibility that Homo sapiens may have interbred with Neanderthals after departing Africa, perhaps 80,000 years ago.

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