Evolution's Past Is Modern Human's Present

Evolution's Past Is Modern Human's Present
Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:56:00 -0500

The past is present when it comes to human evolution.

That seems to be the takeaway from new research that concludes "archaic" humans, somewhere in Africa during the last 20-60 thousand years, interbred with anatomically modern humans and transferred small amounts of genetic material to their offspring who are alive today.

University of Arizona geneticist Michael Hammer and a team of evolutionary biologists, geneticists and mathematicians report the finding in today's ...

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