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Ancient child skull may show humans weren’t alone

The recent unearthing of a 140,000-year-old child’s skull, which may have been a hybrid of modern human and Neanderthal, has sparked a lively debate among scientists. This discovery could potentially ...
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Scientists just found a 140,000-year-old child's skull in Israel, and what they found could change human history

A nearly 140,000-year-old child’s skull found in Skhul Cave, Israel, may show evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, researchers said in a new study. The partially ...
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A 140,000-Year-Old Skull May Point to a Lost Branch of the Human Tree

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal features, leading researchers to think she is possibly a hybrid. If she is a ...
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A Child’s Skull That Has Long Confounded Archaeologists Might Be a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid, Study Suggests

Researchers suggest 140,000-year-old child remains from Israel's Skhūl Cave may have belonged to a Homo sapiens-Neanderthal hybrid. Hanay via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In 1931, ...