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 Interbreeding For 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...