Recent research suggests that Neanderthals, the closest-known relatives of Homo sapiens, coexisted with modern humans for thousands of years, until about 40,000 years ago. The Neanderthals faced demographic crises during the Late Pleistocene in Northwest Europe. Genetic studies indicate that modern human alleles were deleterious to Neanderthals, and there was interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals approximately 250,000 years ago. The coexistence and interactions between Neanderthals and modern humans have been the subject of ongoing scientific inquiry, shedding light on the complex evolutionary history of our species.
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AMH-to-Neanderthal introgression occurred ∼250ks ago ∼6% of the Altai Nea genome was inherited from AMH Recent non-African admixture brought Nea ancestry to some African groups Modern human alleles were deleterious to Neanderthals https://t.co/b3k4BYcpkF
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