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
基金国家自然科学基金(No.91114201)国家重点基础研究发展计划(2012CB821906)资助出版+2 种基金the project CGL2009-11838(Government of Spain)support from the SYNTHESYS Project http://www.synthesys.info/which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 Integrating Activities ProgrammeThe support of the Palaeontology Investment Fund of The Natural History Museum
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.
