40,000-Year-Old Human Had Neanderthal Great-Great-Grandparent
In 2002 , cavers excavate a mandibula in Peștera cu Oase of southwestern Romania . While it had some Neanderthal features , the bone belong to an anatomically modernistic human male who lived 37,000 to 42,000 age ago . Now , according to research worker analyzing deoxyribonucleic acid extracted from the bone , this modernistic human – one of the earliest homo in Europe – had a Neanderthalian relative just four to six generations ago ....