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Human-Neandertal mating gets a new date

Details: Category: Latest; Created: Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:49; Last Updated: Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:49; Published: Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:49; Written by Nancy Kiser

A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least partly because of interbreeding that took place between 37,000 and 86,000 years ago. Click here to read more in ScienceNews.