The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50-40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike. It is therefore not surprising that this time period — the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition — has been a focus of research for many archaeologists, physical ...
An international team of researchers has now discovered that Neanderthals had a presence in Europe around 430,000 years ago, making it at least 30,000 years earlier than previously assumed. The team of researchers analyzed nuclear DNA that was extracted from the 430,000-year-old bones that were discovered in the Sima de los Huesos, or “Pit of ...
When the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, using DNA collected from ancient bones, it was accompanied by the discovery that modern humans in Asia, Europe, and America inherited approximately 2 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals — proving humans and Neanderthals had interbred after humans left Africa. Since that study, new methods have continued to catalog ...
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