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21 August 2025 EN sciencedaily-human-evo

140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals

Israel fossil dating discovery skeleton

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery pushes back the timeline of human interbreeding, proving that Neanderthals and modern humans were already mixing long before Europe s later encounters.

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