Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals.

ABSTRACT: Genomic analyses of Neanderthals have previously provided insights into their population history and relationship to modern humans^1-8, but the social organization of Neanderthal communities remains poorly understood. Here we present genetic data for 13 Neanderthals from two Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia: 11 from Chagyrskaya Cave^9,10 and 2 from Okladnikov Cave¹¹-making this one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date. We used hybridization capture to obtain genome-wide nuclear data, as well as mitochondrial and Y-chromosome sequences. Some Chagyrskaya individuals were closely related, including a father-daughter pair and a pair of second-degree relatives, indicating that at least some of the i

SUBMITTER: Skov L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9581778 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature