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Oldest DNA from poop contains a Neanderthal’s microbiome – Ars Technica
The Neanderthal microbiome wasn’t so different from ours, a recent study suggests.
Enlarge/ El Salt is an open-air rock shelter nestled against the base of a limestone cliff. Archaeological evidence tells us that Neanderthals lived here from around 60,700 to 45,200 years ago.
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Biologist Marco Candela and his colleagues recently sequenced ancient microbial DNA from 50,000-year-old Neanderthal feces found at the El Salt archaeological site in Spain. The sequences included DNA from several of the microbes that still call our intestines home, as well…
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