Recent discoveries show that humans left Africa multiple times prior to 60,000 years ago, and that they interbred with other hominins in many locations across Eurasia. (sciencedaily.com)
Comparisons of the human genome to the genomes of Neandertals and apes can help identify features that set modern humans apart from other hominin species. (sciencemag.org)
And whenever they ran into other hominin populations, well. . . (discovermagazine.com)