Biologically, they are not different species; Morphologically, they are.
The two groups interbreed throughout the Middle Paleolithic.
The new research indicates that the two groups may have interacted even earlier in the Levant.
Tinshemet Cave, where the recent research took place.Photo: Yossi Zaidner
sapiensand Eurasian Neanderthal-like hominins in the mid-MP Levant.
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