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Genomes Reveal Timing of Homo Sapiens Interbreeding with Neanderthals

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Reuters

14:08 JST, December 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.

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