Thursday, May 6, 2010

Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans

They are so closely related that some researchers group them and us as a single species. "I would see them as a form of humans that are bit more different than humans are today, but not much," says Svante Pääbo, a palaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, whose team sequenced the Neanderthal genome.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18869-neanderthal-genome-reveals-interb...

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