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Published online 30 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061030-3
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Did Neanderthals and modern humans get it together?
Hybrid fossils in Romania add to story of ancient human pairings.
The idea that Neanderthals and early humans living in Europe may have interbred has been strengthened by a re-analysis of bones unearthed in a Romanian cave more than 50 years ago.
The bones show a mixture of modern human and Neanderthal features, leading researchers to suggest that the two groups could have intermixed and produced offspring.
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