400,000-Year-Old Human Ancestor DNA Sequenced --"Shows Link to Extinct Relatives of Neanderthals"

Researchers sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Sima de los Huesos, the "bone pit", is a cave site in Northern Spain that has yielded the world's largest assembly of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils. Using novel techniques to...