Researchers Just Released The First High-Quality Neanderthal Genome Sequence

Following up on data they released in 2010 of the "draft" version of the neanderthal genome, researchers at Germany's Max Plank Institute For Evolutionary Anthropology have just released a "high-quality" version of the genome. The genome sequence was generated from a toe bone of a neanderthal discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. "The genome is of very high quality," study researcher Kay Prüfer said in a statement [PDF]. Instead of the once-over "draft" genome, this new version has...