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DNA evidence of Neanderthal sister species


The human family tree just got another mysterious branch, an African "sister species" to the heavy-browed Neanderthals that once roamed Europe.  While no fossilized bones have been found from these enigmatic people, they did leave a calling card in present-day Africans: snippets of foreign DNA.  Click here to read more in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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