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Using DNA to Look for Extinct Humans in Ancient Cave Mud


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Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans

even without fossils, New Scientist, April 27, 2017

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129259-mud-dna-means-we-can-detect-ancient-humans-even-without-fossils/

 

Photos: Looking for Extinct Humans in Ancient Cave Mud

By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science, April 27, 2017

http://www.livescience.com/58872-neanderthal-dna-found-in-ancient-cave-mud.html

http://www.livescience.com/58873-dna-from-extinct-humans-photos.html

 

The paper is:

 

Slon, V., C. Hopfe, C. L. Weiß, and many others, 2017,

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments

Science  27 Apr 2017: eaam9695, DOI: 10.1126/science.aam9695

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/04/26/science.aam9695

 

Yours,


Paul H.

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