Scientists sequence genome of 45,000-year-old man

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He lived about 45,000 years ago and died on the banks of a river in Siberia and now scientists have decoded his DNA to narrow the time when humans and Neanderthals first got a little bit frisky.

The individual, named Ust'-Ishim man after the settlement close to his burial site, represents the earliest modern human outside Africa to have their genome sequenced.

An international team of geneticists, led by ancient DNA specialist Svante Paabo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, extracted DNA from the man's thigh bone.

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