A high-quality genome of a Chagyrskaya Neanderthal was firstpublishedin 2020.
In 2022 a different team of researchers managed to studythe presence of herpes in Bronze Age remains.
It is more likely that archaic anatomically modern humans infected Neanderthals than the reverse, Briones said.
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman (right) and a modern human (left).Photo: Joe McNally (Getty Images)
Viral loads may have been transmitted, but so too was…intimacy.
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Chagyrskaya Cave, in the Altai Mountains.Photo:Tbviola
