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New genetic evidence from Stajnia Cave reveals the oldest Neanderthal group reconstructed in Central-Eastern Europe

An international study published in Current Biology presents the results of the analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA obtained from eight Neanderthal teeth discovered in Stajnia Cave, Poland. For the ...
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DNA from eight teeth in a Polish cave reconstructed one of Europe’s oldest Neanderthal families

Eight Neanderthal teeth recovered from a single cave in southern Poland have yielded mitochondrial genomes belonging to at least seven individuals who lived roughly 100,000 years ago, making them the ...