NEW YORK -- A small bone fragment that scientists initially ignored has produced a bonanza: enough Neanderthal DNA to start mapping the genetic code of the stocky and muscular relative of modern ...
But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...
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Cave dirt DNA is rewriting early human and Neanderthal history
In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...
BERLIN -- U.S. and German scientists set out Thursday to decipher the genetic code of the Neanderthal, a feat that they hope will help deepen understanding of how the brains of modern humans evolved.
Scientists have sequenced DNA from one of humans' closest relatives, the Neanderthal. Guests examine what that prehistoric genetic code might tell us about how these early hominids lived, and why they ...
Unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone, scientists have reconstructed a portion of that creature's genetic code -- a technological tour de ...
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