Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals
Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 07:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Which genes make us uniquely human? Scientists are looking at DNA in old bones to find out. The focus now is not so much on our own species, Homo sapiens. Instead, scientists are probing DNA in well-preserved pieces of bone from our closest extinct relative, the Neanderthal.