Paleontology |
November 30, 2012
Recent science strongly indicate that some Neanderthals had pale skin and red hair, similar to those Homo sapiens who are descendants from Europe. The international research team extracted a pigmentation gene, mc1r, from the bones of two Neanderthals, see below article for more information. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/318/5855/1453.abstract).

Fora-TV presents Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He details the curious discovery of a genetic integration between Neanderthals and modern humans around 60,000 years ago.

The Neanderthals are a now-extinct species or subspecies within the genus Homo and closely related to modern humans. They partly evolved in and around Europe. The first proto-Neanderthal traits appeared in Europe as early as 600,000–350,000 years ago.

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