The research adds to growing evidence that modern humans mixed regularly with Neanderthals and other extinct relatives, says Viviane Slon, a palaeogeneticist at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel.

以色列特拉维夫大学的古遗传学家 Viviane Slon 说， 这项研究增加了越来越多的证据表明现代人类经常与尼安德特人和其他已灭绝的亲属混居。