Ancient genomes offer rare glimpse of Neanderthal family groups

Ancient genomes offer rare glimpse of Neanderthal family groups

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/ancient-genomes-offer-rare-glimpse-neanderthal-family-groups

Ancient DNA from a Siberian cave reveals the first known father-daughter pair of Neanderthals.

More than 49,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals set up camp in a cave high in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, overlooking a river valley where bison, red deer, and wild horses roamed. In the cave’s main gallery, a teenage girl lost a tooth, perhaps while gnawing on bison that her father or his kin had hunted in the sweeping grasslands.