Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid?

In 1998, the skeleton of a 29,000-year-old child was discovered in the Lapedo valley in Portugal. The child had early modern human and Neanderthal features such as the chin and lower arms of a modern human but the jaw and build of a Neanderthal. Researchers believe that the child's anatomy was the result of a mixed Neandertal-early modern human ancestry.

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Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh

14 March 2023