Submitted by Christine Alexander on Fri, 28/10/2016 - 14:45
Recent research has demonstrated that humans and their near cousins Neanderthals once interbred. After analysing chimpanzee genomes, the authors of a new paper, to which members of the Scally Group contributed, reveal that chimpanzees and bonobos once did the same.
>> Read the paper in Science : de Manuel et al - 'Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos'
>> News item 'Ancient hookups gave chimps a smidge of bonobo DNA' in Science News