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🧪🏺🦣 New paper on Amud 7 #Neanderthal baby, finding accelerated growth and development
(Amud 7 is the one with the intriguing deer upper jaw on its pelvis, a rare apparent object placed with the dead)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
D17's genome reveals gene flow from Denisovans and (very) early modern humans, and falls within the Eastern Neanderthal lineage.
Eastern and Western Neanderthal lineages split ~150,000 years ago, and evolved separately for a long time.
D17 lived in small group of <50 individuals.
The result? 3/4
D17 is an ~110,000-year-old Neanderthal male. His full genome was sequenced by our colleagues(@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social & @massilanilab.bsky.social) at 37× coverage using a *single* library with ~70% endogenous DNA!
This must make him the best genetically preserved Neanderthal to date! 2/4
A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17).
A rather unremarkable sliver.
At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)?
Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4
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