Oct 25, 2015
7 min read
Is There a Neanderthal Lurking in Your Genes?
When I was a teenager in Israel, I once hiked on Mount Carmel with a bunch of my buddies. We came to the site of a cave, the Tabun cave, that contained the skeleton of a woman that lived there about 120,000 years ago. But, she wasn’t human, by which I mean the Homo sapiens species. She was a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis). Practically next…
