Palaeontology
August 15, 2012 ·
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"You cannot prove there was never any hybridisation," said Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge. "But none of the evidence [for hybridisation] is convincing."
Source: New Scientist | Comments (33)
Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed ?
By T.K. RandallAugust 15, 2012 ·
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Image Credit: Ryan Somma
A new study casts doubt on the idea that our ancient ancestors would have interbred with Neanderthals.
Research in to the Neanderthal genome revealed genes that live on in modern humans, a sure sign that the two species would have interbred at some stage in the past - or so it seemed. Now new research has suggested that the reason we share genes with Neanderthals is because both species descended from a common ancestor and not because of cross-species interbreeding."You cannot prove there was never any hybridisation," said Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge. "But none of the evidence [for hybridisation] is convincing."
Andrea Manica and Anders Eriksson at the University of Cambridge have now built a model to demonstrate a non-interbreeding explanation for the 2010 result.
Source: New Scientist | Comments (33)
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