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SUBMITTER: Gomez-Robles A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6520022 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20190515 5
The origin of Neanderthal and modern human lineages is a matter of intense debate. DNA analyses have generally indicated that both lineages diverged during the middle period of the Middle Pleistocene, an inferred time that has strongly influenced interpretations of the hominin fossil record. This divergence time, however, is not compatible with the anatomical and genetic Neanderthal affinities observed in Middle Pleistocene hominins from Sima de los Huesos (Spain), which are dated to 430 thousan ...[more]