DNA hints at African cousin to humans
29/07/2013 13:23
By Tina Hesman Saey
Gene profiles suggest people interbred with a now-extinct species on the continent not that long ago. Expeditions to Africa may have brought back evidence of a hitherto unknown branch in the human family tree. But this time the evidence wasn’t unearthed by digging in the dirt. It was found in the DNA of hunter-gatherer people living in Cameroon and Tanzania. [Read more] ...