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September 20, 2009
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Washington, Sept 20 (ANI): A team of researchers is probing the links between modern humans and Neanderthals.

Homo neanderthalensis nearly made it through two Ice Ages in Europe, and disappeared roughly 30,000 years ago.

Now, Richard "Ed" Green, PhD, who studies Neanderthal DNA at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany joined hands with a lab team headed by Svante P[R][+ or -][R][+ or -]bo, a famous Swedish scientist, for study of Neanderthal-human link.

It is believed that Neanderthals and humans first evolved separately from a common ancestor a few hundred thousand years ago.

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