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Svante Paabo believes modern humans & Neadnertals interbred

posted to Gene Expression on 26 Oct 2009

Neanderthals 'had sex' with modern man: Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, will shortly publish his analysis of the entire Neanderthal genome, using DNA retrieved from fossils. He aims to compare it with the ...
Sex and the Single Neanderthal: Inter-Species Breeding in the Upper Palaeolithic?

posted to Anthropology.net on 28 Oct 2009

There’s been some coverage of a recent announcement by Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute, who opines that Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans had sexual encounters as they co-habited in Upper Palaeolithic Eurasia from around 42,000 bp to 24,500 bp. The main article is over at the L...