OK, so ancient Scottish fish the first to have sex was not exiciting enough for some of you, today we have 45,000-Year-Old Bone Pinpoints Era of Human-Neanderthal Sex!!
A picture of the bone:Unearthed by an ivory carver from a Siberian riverbank, a man's 45,000-year-old thigh bone reveals when people first mated with Neanderthals, an international genetics team reports Wednesday.
Scientists collected DNA from the bone and analyzed the ancient man's complete genetic map, or genome. The DNA narrows down the time when mating first brought Neanderthal genes into the human gene pool: from 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.
"It's really exciting...," says study author and genetics expert Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
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