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Identifying the Levant as a potential contact and interbreeding zone for Neanderthals and modern humans
Anooshe Kafash, Trine Kellberg Nielsen, Marc Grünig…·Masoud Yousefi
The paper identifies the Levant as the main potential interbreeding area for the third Neanderthal-modern human contact event using species distribution modeling and archaeological data.
DOI 10.1101/2025.08.02.668257