DNA from Neanderthal leg shows distant split

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
Reuters

Nov 15, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced DNA from the leg bone of a Neanderthal man who died 38,000 years ago and said on Wednesday it shows the Neanderthals are truly distant relatives of modern humans who interbred rarely, if at all, with our own immediate ancestors.

They estimate that modern humans and Neanderthals split from a common ancestor at least 370,000 years ago, and possibly 500,000 years ago, although we share 99.95 percent of our DNA.

"We see no evidence of mixing 40,000, 30,000 years ago in Europe. We don't exclude it, but see no evidence," Edward Rubin of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, who led one study, told reporters.

This conflicts with some evidence from other researchers, including a team who said earlier this month that humans may have inherited a brain gene from Neanderthals.

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أتمنى لو ملكت الوقت لأترجم المقالة لأنها غنية بالمعلومات ، ولكني سأنقل فقط صورة النياندرتال مع ترجمة التعليق عليها ...

A reconstruction of man's ancestor, the Neanderthal, displayed in a show of the Prehistoric Museum in Halle, eastern Germany. Germany celebrates 2006 the 150 anniversary of the Neanderthal man's first discovery by quarry workers in the Neander valley, near Dusseldorf in August 1856. (Sebastian Willnow/ AFP/ Getty Images)

إعادة بناء لسلف الإنسان ، النياندرتال ، معروضة في أحد معارض متحف ما قبل التاريخ في هالي ، ألمانيا الشرقية .
تحتفل ألمانيا عام 2006 بالذكرى 150 لأول اكتشاف لإنسان نياندرتال بواسطة عمال منجم في وادي نياندرتال، قرب دوسيلدورف في أغسطس 1856 ...