But Did They Mate?

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Science 2 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5509, p. 1726
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5509.1726

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But Did They Mate?

Ann Gibbons

If Neandertals and modern humans lived in close proximity for thousands of years (see main text), the obvious question is, did they mate? For scientists, children are the key issue. Successful reproduction would imply that Neandertals and humans were part of the same species and shared a recent evolutionary history.

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