Hybrid humans: How our ancestors' inter-species trysts affect us today

Monday, October 24, 2011 - 14:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New genetic analysis of prehistoric fossils has shown that most modern humans outside Africa carry the genes of Neanderthals and other extinct human species. How does that change our understanding of what it means to be human?

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