Illustration of modern humans who lived in Europe about 45,000 years ago Tom Bj枚rklund
Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins hybridised in unprecedented detail.
鈥淭he vast majority of the Neanderthal gene flow鈥 occurred in a single, shared, extended period,鈥 says at the University of California, Berkeley.
The studies confirm that modern humans acquired important gene variants by mixing with Neanderthals,…
