Tag: Neanderthal and modern human hybridization

Neanderthals and modern humans are believed to have interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now mostly Iran, according to a recent study. This region served as a meeting point between the warmer...

Identifying the Location of Neanderthal-Human InterbreedingFor tens of thousands of years, Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans coexisted in vast landscapes, occasionally crossing paths and leaving traces of their interactions in the DNA of their...