Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig

A 45,000-Year-Old Leg Bone Reveals The Oldest Human Genome Yet

Geoff Brumfiel

The DNA in this ancient Siberian leg bone shows that the man had Neanderthal ancestors — yet more proof that humans and Neanderthals interbred. And he lived much farther north than expected.

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