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Science 11 July 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5323, pp. 176 - 178
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5323.176
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
DNA From an Extinct Human

Patricia Kahn and Ann Gibbons

In a technical tour de force, scientists from Germany and the United States for the first time extracted and analyzed DNA from a Neandertal. The mitochondrial DNA sequence they found offers a new kind of evidence for the view that Neandertals were not our ancestors, but an evolutionary dead end.

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From the Cover: Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians: Implications for modern human origins.
G. J. Adcock, E. S. Dennis, S. Easteal, G. A. Huttley, L. S. Jermiin, W. J. Peacock, and A. Thorne (2001)
PNAS 98, 537-542
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Detecting Ancient Admixture in Humans Using Sequence Polymorphism Data.
J. D. Wall (2000)
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