Artistic depiction of interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Artistic depiction of interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans

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Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a cave art painting. DNA from bones and teeth of these early human ancestors is helping scientists understand the interactions between early Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals they encountered after migrating out of Africa.

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Leonardo Iasi, MPI-EVA. Figure created with Dall-E and BioRender.com

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