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Science: Researchers Sequence Neandertal Genome, Casting New Light on Human History and Identity
May 06, 2010
WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued the following news release:

An international research team has sequenced the Neandertal genome, using pill-sized samples of bone powder from three Neandertal bones found in a cave in Croatia. The results appear in the 7 May issue of the journal Science, which is published by AAAS.

The researchers, led by Svante Paabo of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzi . . .

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