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28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinct

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A child with both Neanderthal and modern-human features has been dated to around 28,000 years ago .

The child's skeleton was discovered in 1998 in the Lapedo Valley of central Portugal .

The new dates range from 25,830 to 26,600 B.C. The child was found a decade before the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced.

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