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Paleogenomics of archaic hominins.
Current biology : CB - 20 Dec 2011
Lalueza-Fox Carles, Gilbert M Thomas P
Abstract excerpt
In order to understand the genetic basis for the evolutionary success of modern humans, it is necessary to compare their genetic makeup to that of closely related species. Unfortunately, our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are evolutionarily quite distant. With the advent of ancient DNA study and more recently paleogenomics - the study of the genomes of ancient organisms - it has become possible to...
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