Neandertals 'hardly differed at all' from modern humans

Scientists have succeeded in obtaining important information from a tiny quantity of contaminated Neandertal DNA, amplifying and sequencing only those portions (exons) that code for proteins. This work revealed that Neandertals hardly differ at all from modern humans, at the level of the proteins produced by their full set of genes -- a result researchers calls "astonishing."

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