30,000-Year-Old Teeth Shake Up Human Evolution
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 12:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers from the University of Bristol have analyzed the teeth of a 30,000-year-old child originally found in the Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal in 1998. Classified as a modern human with Neanderthal ancestry, the child raises controversial questions about how extensively Neanderthals and modern human groups of African descent interbred when they came into contact in Europe read more