Roots of the Neanderthals

Neandertals, the mysterious archaihc form of humans that once lived in west Eurasia; little is known abut their population history. This review covers a paper on the retrieved nuclear genomic sequences from two Neandertals, one from Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave in Germany and the other from Scladina Cave in Belgium, who lived around 120,000 years ago. It turns out that all later Neandertals trace at least part of their ancestry back to these early European Neandertals.
Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic continuity in Europe
Peyrégne, S. et. al. 2019 Science Advances
doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw5873
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Truly amazing that so much can be figured out from a branch of our ancestry.