Teams of scientists working in laboratories in Germany and USA claim to have recovered DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton found in 1856, and the results of their analyses support the idea that the Neanderthal were a sepa...Teams of scientists working in laboratories in Germany and USA claim to have recovered DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton found in 1856, and the results of their analyses support the idea that the Neanderthal were a separate human species that died out some 30000 years ago. If they have really succeeded, they have made an astonishing break through in human evolutionary studies. As a world famous anthropologist, Chris Stringer briefly reviews this new development.展开更多
文摘Teams of scientists working in laboratories in Germany and USA claim to have recovered DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton found in 1856, and the results of their analyses support the idea that the Neanderthal were a separate human species that died out some 30000 years ago. If they have really succeeded, they have made an astonishing break through in human evolutionary studies. As a world famous anthropologist, Chris Stringer briefly reviews this new development.
