Four new Late Pleistocene European modern human genomes had Neanderthal ancestors in their immediate family history, suggesting that interbreeding with the last Neanderthals was common.
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Lalueza-Fox, C. Neanderthal assimilation?. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 711–712 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01421-3
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