Human Ancestors Interbred with Related Species

Monday, September 5, 2011 - 17:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

From Nature magazine. Our ancestors bred with other species in the Homo genus, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The authors say that up to 2% of the genomes of some modern African populations may originally came from a closely related species. [More]

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