A new report published in Nature analyzes the DNA of a 45,000-year-old modern human leg bone recovered from Siberia in 2008, and finds that he lived a short time after Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals. According to paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, this ancient man belonged to a population that was related to earlier people who left Africa and split into European and Central Asian lines.
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