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While the ridiculous argument about Neandertal mitochondrial DNA has been going on here, Svante Pääbo and company have been doing real science, sequencing the mtDNA from a 400,000 year old Homo bone from Spain:
BBC story.
Journal article
The results are pretty confusing, since the DNA is clearly more closely related to Denisovans than to Neandertals, even though southwest Spain was Neandertal country, and the bone probably predates the split between Neandertals and Denisovans. Human history just got more complicated.
BBC story.
Journal article
The results are pretty confusing, since the DNA is clearly more closely related to Denisovans than to Neandertals, even though southwest Spain was Neandertal country, and the bone probably predates the split between Neandertals and Denisovans. Human history just got more complicated.