DNA From an Extinct Human

Authors:
  • PKPatricia Kahn
    Patricia Kahn
  • AGAnn Gibbons
    Ann Gibbons
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Abstract
In a technical tour de force, scientists from Germany and the United States for the first time extracted and analyzed DNA from a Neandertal. The mitochondrial DNA sequence they found offers a new kind of evidence for the view that Neandertals were not our ancestors, but an evolutionary dead end.