Bear genome at Atapuerca paves way for earliest hominid sequencing at site

An international team that includes spanish researches has sequenced the mitochondrial genome of bears who lived about 400.000 years ago in Atapuerca El Pais

This brings scientists closer to sequencing the entire genome of pre-Neanderthal humans who lived at the same time, and who hold clues about the evolution of our species Read the article