Illustration of modern humans who lived in Europe about 45,000 years ago
Image courtesy of Tom Btörklund
Joel Kontinen
The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans
have shown that they interbred with the Neanderthals.
For those who believe in progressive creationism, this
comes as a shock. They believe that Neandertals were not human. But now science
has proved that they are.
Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a
sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean.
That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins hybridised
in unprecedented detail.
“The vast majority of the Neanderthal gene flow…
occurred in a single, shared, extended period,” says Priya
Moorjani at the University of California, Berkeley.
The studies confirm that modern humans acquired important gene variants by mixing with Neanderthals.
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