My Neanderthal sex secret: modern European's great-great grandparent link
by Ian Sample from on (#C2T0)
Genetic tests on one of earliest Europeans living 40,000 years ago finds unusually high DNA levels to reveal sex with Neanderthal only four generations earlier
The first modern humans to arrive in Europe did not wait long to have sex with Neanderthals, according to experts in ancient DNA.
The conclusion follows genetic tests that show one of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe was the great-great grandson of a Neanderthal. Or perhaps the great- great-great-great grandson.
