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February 2009

Scientists have mapped a first draft of the Neanderthal genome…

An article reports that scientists have mapped a first draft of the Neanderthal genome. Highlights of the article: Researchers used DNA fragments extracted from three Croatian fossils to map out more than 60 percent of the entire Neanderthal genome by sequencing three billion bases of DNA. The analysis showed it is highly unlikely that much […]