An article published in the journal “Nature Communications” describes a genetic research on a European hominin whose bones were found in Germany in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave. This individual is about 124,000 years old and is a Neanderthal but his mitochondrial DNA is different from that of the others of his species. According to the researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, this indicates a crossbreeding with African hominins closely related to Homo sapiens.