The whole "interbreeding with Neanderthals" thing is so widely debated, even now. I literally saw two articles from the same journal in the same week from differing researchers— the first was about the sequencing of Neanderthal DNA that confirmed that they had definitely interbred with humans (and stated something like all non-African modern humans are descended to some degree from Neanderthals), and the second stated that Neanderthals and modern humans had never inhabited the same areas of Europe at the same time and thus could never have interbred or even interacted with each other. It's so controversial that hardly anyone agrees, but I have always been of the opinion that they did interact and interbreed, which seems to be the general consensus that the scientific community is reaching now.
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Date: 2011-08-28 05:22 am (UTC)