"We found evidence for hybridization between modern humans and archaic forms in Africa. It looks like our lineage has always exchanged genes with their more morphologically diverged neighbors," said the paper's main author Michael Hammer about human-ape "relations" in Africa between 20,000 and 60,000 years ago.
"We think there were probably thousands of interbreeding events. It happened relatively extensively and regularly."
[Insert monkey sex joke here. Preferably one involving Rick Perry and/or Michele Bachmann and Intelligent Design.]
September 6, 2011 | ScienceDaily
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