Siberian mouse girls
"I wouldn't go so far as to say they have demonstrated mixture with Homo erectus," he said. "The paper is really just the beginning," John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved with the study, wrote to NBC News in an email.
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"To me, it’s very satisfying," Pääbo said.
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This latest analysis, a culmination of nearly two decades of research, is the most thorough analysis to date. In 2010, he led a team to publish a rough draft of a Neanderthal genome from a fossil found in a cave in Croatia. Neanderthal genome work began in 1997 when a team led by Pääbo extracted DNA from a 30,000 year old Neanderthal bone found in Germany. The entrance to the Denisova cave where researchers came across a fragment of bone from a Denisovan girl's pinkie finger in 2008, and uncovered the Neanderthal toe bone in 2010. The full analysis of the Siberian Neanderthal genome is published in the Thursday issue of Nature.
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"It’s an inference from those other genomes."īy comparing genetic evidence of the Neanderthal female who lived some 50,000 years ago, with the sequence of a Denisovan girl published in August last year, Pääbo and team discovered a small but discrete signature of a much older species, which the paleoanthropologists suspect might be Homo erectus. "There is not even a bone splinter here," Svante Pääbo, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said of the unknown species.