In 2010 researchers on the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA), in Leipzig, revealed the genome of Homo neanderthalensis, a species recognized in much less progressive days as Neanderthal man. This contained stretches of DNA additionally present in Homo sapiens genomes—particularly, non-African ones. That instructed previous interbreeding between the 2, however solely exterior Africa. This isn’t stunning. Homo sapiens started in Africa however Neanderthals had been Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have occurred after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world. However the particulars had been unclear.
