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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample Science editor

DNA of 13 Neanderthals reveals ‘exciting’ snapshot of ancient community

Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains, Siberia
The remains were found in caves in southern Siberia. Photograph: Dr Richard G Roberts/AFP/Getty Images

The first snapshot of a Neanderthal community has been pieced together by scientists who examined ancient DNA from fragments of bone and teeth unearthed in caves in southern Siberia.

Researchers analysed DNA from 13 Neanderthal men, women and children and found an interconnecting web of relationships, including a father and his teenage daughter, another man related to the father, and two second-degree relatives, possibly an aunt and her nephew.

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