Neanderthal Genome Gets A First Draft
Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 13:29
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Neandertals were the closest relatives of currently living humans. They lived in Europe and parts of Asia until they became extinct about 30,000 years ago. For more than a hundred years, paleontologists and anthropologists have been striving to uncover their evolutionary relationship to modern humans. read more
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