Traces of DNA found in remains Neanderthal woman show date of first human-Neanderthal couplings is tens of millennia earlier than previously thoughtA Neanderthal woman who lived and died in a Siberian cave 50000 years ago has led researchers to the oldest known case of sex between contemporary humans and their beefy,thick-browed cousins.Tests revealed that the female, whose remains were recovered from the Altai mountains on the Russia-Mongolia border, and carried traces of DNA from Homo sapiens who appear to bear mated with her ancestors 100000 years ago.
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Source: theguardian.com