Illustration of modern humans living in Europe around 45,000 years ago
Tom Björklund
Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of about 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That’s two studies that explain in unprecedented detail how these two hominins hybridized.
“The majority of Neanderthal gene flow … occurred over a single, shared, long period,” he says. Priya Moorjani at the University of California at Berkeley.
Research confirms that modern humans acquired important gene variants by interbreeding with Neanderthals,…
