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Old Bone Shows Two Neanderthals Were Related
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Based on source story: 2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone reveals from Live Science
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Scientists studied a tiny bone from Denisova in Siberia. The bone is about 110,000 years old. from it showed that two Neanderthals from the same who lived about 10,000 years apart, were part of family lines.
One Neanderthal was a male called D17. The other was a female called D5. D5 was not the direct mother of D17's line, but the study says both came from groups with a common older family line. This means Neanderthals stayed in the Altai area for a long time.
The also showed that these groups were very small and very separate. Some parents were closely like first The researchers said this helps explain how Neanderthals lived in hard conditions and how groups in the Altai later became different from Neanderthals in Europe.
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