It’s just mitochondrial DNA, but the 38,000-year-old DNA should still offer major insights.
It may already be starting to do so. The DNA code for COX2, a gene involved in making cellular energy, changes its encoded protein at four places in human-Neanderthal comparison. What significance, if any, that has, remains to be determined.
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