Meeting and mating with Neandertals

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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education

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Eugene Harris, author of Ancestors in Our Genome, discusses recent studies in paleogenomics which suggest that our human ancestors both met and mated with Neandertals. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/ancestors-in-our-genome-9780199978038 

Eugene E. Harris is Professor of Biological Sciences and Geology at the City University of New York, and a Research Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Origins at New York University.

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