You may recall a post I put up in October that discussed a 30,000 year old cranium recovered from a cave in Romania that was purported to have both modern human and Neanderthal features. Now the same researcher, Erik Trinkhaus, has a second cranium from a different Romanian cave that he believes shows the same thing. This one is older, dating to 35 - 40,000 years ago.
As I said in the earlier post, and as is pointed out in this new piece, the current project that is mapping the Neanderthal genome will likely tell us much more about the interbreeding issue than will comparative cranial morphology.
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