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Neanderthal Nuclear DNA Found in Paleolithic Cave Sediments | Archaeology, Genetics – Sci-News.com
An international team of scientists has developed new methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments, and applied them to cave deposits in…
An international team of scientists has developed new methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments, and applied them to cave deposits in Europe and Siberia dated to between approximately 200,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Vernot et al. extracted Neanderthal nuclear DNA from cave sediments. Image credit: Tyler B. Tretsven.
Skeletal remains are important sources of Pleistocene hominin DNA, but are rarely recovered at archaeological sites.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been retrieved…
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