CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 days ago28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinctwww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down11
arrow-up144arrow-down1external-link28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinctwww.livescience.comCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·edit-22 days agoWhat a butchered headline. Ok so this skeleton is about 12,000 years younger than the time the Neanderthals started disapeaering from the geological record. There is no genetic evidence that this child was indeed a hybrid, only some circumstancial evidence based on bone shapes. So I guess the most logical conclusion is that it was not a (significant) hybrid after all, but just a human sapiens with birth defects.
What a butchered headline.
Ok so this skeleton is about 12,000 years younger than the time the Neanderthals started disapeaering from the geological record.
There is no genetic evidence that this child was indeed a hybrid, only some circumstancial evidence based on bone shapes.
So I guess the most logical conclusion is that it was not a (significant) hybrid after all, but just a human sapiens with birth defects.