Did Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens interbreed?

We can use the DNA from fossil Neanderthals to approach this, and many other questions, such as: What was the relationship between Neanderthals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens? Did Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans interbreed? Did Neanderthals contribute to the modern genome ? read more

It's very much possible that the offspring of Homo Sapians and Homo Neanderthalensis couldn't interbreed further (or, after some generations) which kept the difference between species intact and one survived, other didn't. read more

The new study isn't alone in finding genetic hints of Homo sapiens-Homo neanderthalensis interbreeding. Genetic anthropologist Jeffrey Long, who calls the Science study "very exciting," co-authored a new, not yet published study that found DNA evidence of interbreeding between early modern humans and an "archaic human" species, though it's not clear which. read more

A new paper published by Michael Hammer from the University of Arizona, however, provides new evidence that Homo sapiens not only interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia, they also had sex with several species of our ancestors across the African continent. And they did it often. read more