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integer at www.god-emil.dk integer at www.god-emil.dk
Sat Apr 15 04:40:54 CEST 2000



the expansion of premodern humans into western and eastern europe ~40,000 years 
before the present led to the eventual replacement of the neanderthals by 
modern humans ~28,000 years ago. here we report the second mitochondrial dna 
(mtdna) analysis of a neanderthal and the first such analysis on clearly dated neanderthal remains. the specimen is from one of the eastern-most neanderthal populations recovered from mezmaiskaya cave in the northern caucasus. 
radiocarbon dating estimated the specimen to be ~29,000 years old and 
therefore from one of the latest living neanderthals. 
the sequence shows 3.48% divergence from the feldhofer neanderthal. 
phylogenetic analysis places the two neanderthals from the caucasus 
and western germany together in a clade that is distinct from modern humans
suggesting that their mtdna types have not contributed to the modern human 
mtdna pool. comparison with modern populations provides no evidence for the multiregional hypothesis of modern human evolution.





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