Haplotype Study Says That Non-Africans Are Part Neanderthal - And Humans Interbred With Them
Monday, July 18, 2011 - 11:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
New research has found that some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals and is found exclusively in people outside Africa. Neanderthals, whose ancestors left Africa somewhere in the range of 400,000 to 800,000 years ago, evolved in what is now France, Spain, Germany and Russia, and are believed to have lived until about 30,000 years ago. Early modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago. read more