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January 29, 2014

A toe bone from the Altai Mountains used to find segments of Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans.

The toe bone from the Altai Mountains that produced the genome sequence used to find segments of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans.

Credit: Bence Viola, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology


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