Ancient Skull Research Provides New Information on Human-Neanderthal Cross-Breeding

The Near East was a cross roads for admixture

It is generally accepted that interbreeding has left traces of Neanderthal DNA in the genome of modern people. In a recent Biology¹ article, the facial structure of archaic skulls were evaluated and revealed evidence in favor of the theory that much of this interbreeding occurred in the Near East. The published literature was used by the researchers to g…