A genetic breakthrough could help clear up some long-standing mysteries surrounding our closest evolutionary relatives: the Neanderthals. Scientists have reconstructed a chunk of DNA from the genome of a Neanderthal man who lived 38,000 years ago. The genetic information they extracted from a thigh bone has allowed them to identify more than a ( Read more... )

The first sequences of nuclear DNA to be taken from a Neanderthal have been reported at a US science meeting ( Read more... )

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer ( Read more... )