Asian Neanderthals, Humans Mated

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By Jennifer Viegas
Mon Oct 25, 2010 03:00 PM ET



Early modern humans mated with Neanderthals and possibly other archaic hominid species from Asia at least 100,000 years ago, according to a new study that describes human remains from that period in South China.

The remains are the oldest modern human fossils in East Asia and predate, by over 60,000 years, the oldest previously known modern human remains in the region.

The fossils -- a chin and related teeth -- belonged to a modern human that also featured more robust Neanderthal-type characteristics, indicates the study, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Co-author Erik Trinkaus, who is one of the world's leading experts on Neanderthals, told Discovery News that the new findings mean "there was mating between these 'archaic' and 'modern' groups across Asia, and not just in Europe and the remainder of Africa."

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-human-mating.html

[thecrow]

1. ....and so we have Repubicans...

[shirlden]

2. I understand

Neanderthals were much smarter than the Repubs of today.

[madrchsod]

3. and far more compassion.......

[didact]

4. They lived together...no doubt they mated. Really was there ever a question?

:)