First it was ‘never interacted’, then it was ‘interacted for about a thousand years’, now its 5ooo years. and im sure it seems simple enough now, but 40 years ago when Stan Gooch first proposed the idea he was greeted a little differently.
Their union isn’t all that unusual after all – enough humans and Neanderthals made babies together in the 5,000-plus years that the two species coexisted that modern humans now owe about 4% of our DNA to our extinct nonhuman kin.’ Their families aren’t thrilled with the union, but they’ve learned to deal with it.
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