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Paleoanthropologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding


Paleoanthropologists from Tel Aviv University, the Université de Liège and France’s Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle say they have found a combination of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits in the skeleton of a five-year-old child discovered in 1931 at Skhūl Cave on Mount Carmel, Israel.

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