Accumulating evidence of the physical effects of
interbreeding, or hybridization, in nonhuman animals may offer some answers.
The researchers also looked for evidence of ancient
interbreeding in previously acquired genomes of nearly 1,500 modern-day individuals from different parts of the world.
Also unknown is where the early
interbreeding happened.
The professor told a meeting of the Royal Society in London that this
interbreeding instilled modern man with a "hybrid vigour" that allowed it to go on and populate the world.
Evidence that Neandertal
interbreeding began no more than 60,000 years ago supports the idea that a wave of H.
Two independent investigations identify for the first time the specific parts of the human genome that seem to have been most affected by Stone Age
interbreeding with Neandertais.
London, June 17 (ANI): A study has found that the first humans who left Africa were not able to cope with unfamiliar diseases, but by
interbreeding with the local hominins they picked up genes that protected them.
Yet despite shared DNA, it's unclear whether, or how much,
interbreeding actually occurred.
Swedish biologist Svante Svante Pddbo's team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have found the first definitive evidence of
interbreeding.
A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least partly because of
interbreeding that took place some time between 37,000 and 86,000 years ago.