SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND ancient human DNA in caves, no bones or teeth required. Instead, an international team located genetic traces of Neanderthals and Denisovans - both distant hominin cousins of ours who died off about 40,000 years ago-just from dirt. Researchers have been able to identify animal and plant DNA from soil samples since 2003, but this is the first time they've extracted hominin DNA.
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