Ancient Jersey teeth find hints at Neanderthal mixing
A re-study of the prehistoric find from 1910 suggests interbreeding between two human species. …
Research leader Prof Chris Stringer, from London’s Natural History Museum, said: “Given that modern humans overlapped with Neanderthals in some parts of Europe after 45,000 years ago, the unusual features of these La Cotte individuals suggest that they could have had a dual Neanderthal-modern human ancestry.”