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Science 17 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5802, p. 1045
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5802.1045f
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Our understanding of Neanderthal biology and culture remains limited. These extinct hominids are thought to have been genetically distinct from the human lineage. Noonan et al. (p. 1113; see the news stories by Pennisi and Balter) have now obtained sufficient amounts of Neanderthal genomic sequence, based on sequencing of nuclear DNA from a 38,000-year-old specimen, to create a metagenomic library. They find that humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor up to ~706,000 years ago and that the populations split ~370,000 years ago.




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