Genetic material that Italian researchers extracted from the bones of European Stone Age Homo sapiens, sometimes called Cro-Magnons, bolsters the theory that people evolved independently of Neandertals, the team proposes.
GENETIC FACE-OFF. Mitochondrial DNA from this Cro-Magnon (left) and one other differs markedly from that of Neandertals (right).
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