Neanderthals lived together in small groups, where incest was not strange: research into the first family of prehistoric humans light a tip of the veil

Scientists, including this year’s Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo, have genetically analyzed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. A first, because for the first time a study allows us a look behind the scenes at a family of Neanderthals. What seems? They lived mainly in small groups and were not averse to incest. This is what the researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology write in the journal Nature.

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