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What a 55,000-year-old fetus reveals about the decline of Neanderthals
55000年前胎儿揭示的尼安德特人衰退真相
Ancient DNA from a rare Neanderthal fetus, known from only 12 fragmented bones, provided insight into an earlier evolutionary branch and helped researchers trace a massive population crash that occurred before their extinction.
2026-03-23 1032词 晦涩
"The skeletal remains of very young Neanderthal children, pre-birth or after birth, they're really, really rare," says National Geographic Explorer Alvise Barbieri, an archaeologist and geoscientist at Portugal's University of the Algarve. "I think only one other has been studied, from France."
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