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Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia

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  • Johannes Krause

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany)

  • Ludovic Orlando

    (Paléogénétique et Évolution Moléculaire, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Institut Fédératif Biosciences Gerland Lyon Sud, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, Cedex 07, France)

  • David Serre

    (McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Center, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A4, Canada)

  • Bence Viola

    (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria)

  • Kay Prüfer

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany)

  • Michael P. Richards

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany)

  • Jean-Jacques Hublin

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany)

  • Catherine Hänni

    (Paléogénétique et Évolution Moléculaire, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Institut Fédératif Biosciences Gerland Lyon Sud, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, Cedex 07, France)

  • Anatoly P. Derevianko

    (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch. Lavrentieva Prospekt, 17 Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia)

  • Svante Pääbo

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany)

Abstract

Neanderthals go east The classic frame of the Neanderthals — stocky, long-headed, with distinctive features of the skull — began to emerge around 400,000 years ago, and disappeared from hominins around 30,000 years ago. However, determining the precise identity of fragmentary fossils can be difficult. Krause et al. come to the rescue with mitochondrial DNA sequences that confirm that the skeleton of a child recovered in Uzbekistan in the 1930s was of Neanderthal origin — and showing that remains from the Altai region of Siberia, much further east, are also Neanderthal. This extends the Neanderthal range 2,000 km further east than previously assumed.

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  • Johannes Krause & Ludovic Orlando & David Serre & Bence Viola & Kay Prüfer & Michael P. Richards & Jean-Jacques Hublin & Catherine Hänni & Anatoly P. Derevianko & Svante Pääbo, 2007. "Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia," Nature, Nature, vol. 449(7164), pages 902-904, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:449:y:2007:i:7164:d:10.1038_nature06193
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06193
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