This Week in Nature: Dec 23, 2010

Dec 23, 2010

In this week's Nature, Svante Pääbo and his colleagues report on sequencing the genome of an archaic hominin to 1.9-fold coverage, using DNA obtained from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The researchers compared that genome to those of Neandertals and modern humans.

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