Official MPI press releases

06 May 2010:

The Neandertal in us [pdf]

PRESS KIT/PRESSEMAPPE

12 February 2009: 

Draft version of the Neandertal genome completed [pdf]

16 November 2006:

The first million have been sequenced [pdf]

23 July 2006:

Neandertal genome to be deciphered [pdf]

Other project media coverage

• Neanderthal genome already giving up its secrets (Newscientist, 10.12.2008)
• Leg bone yields DNA secrets of man's Neanderthal 'Eve' (Guardian, 08.08.2008)
• Scientists close to cracking Neanderthal DNA code (Telegraph,08.08.2008)
• Neanderthal Bone Yields Complete Mitochondrial Genome (Discovery Channel, 07.08.2008)
• First Neanderthal genome completed (NewScientist, 07.08.2008)
• Neandertal mitochondrial DNA deciphered (ScienceNews, 07.08.2008)
• Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-year-old Bone(ScienceDaily, 08.08.2008)
• Neanderthal genome well underway (Cosmos, 25.07.2008)
• Caveman's DNA Looks Modern (ScienceNOW, 16.07.2008)
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071018123649.htm
• Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'(ScienceDaily, 21.07.2007)
• Cave Speak: Did Neandertals Talk? (Scientific American, 19.10.2007)
• Neanderthals May Have Had Gene for Speech (New York Times, 18.10.2007)
• Neanderthals possessed crucial gene linked to speech, DNA evidence suggests
  (International Herald Tribune, 18.10.2007)
• Neandertals Had Same "Language Gene" as Modern Humans (National Geografic, 18.10.2007)
• Neanderthals may have talked (Reuters, 18.10.2007)
• Talk Like a Man (ScienceNOW, 18.10.2007)
• Modern speech gene found in Neanderthals (Nature, 18.10.2007)
• Fossil DNA Expands Neanderthal Range (New York Times, 02.10.2007)
• Neandertals Ranged Much Farther East Than Thought (01.10.2007)
• Neanderthal empire grows(Telegraph, 01.10.2007)
• Neanderthals roamed as far as Siberia( NewScientist, 30.09.2007)
• How to Reconstruct the Neandertal Genome (Scientific American, 26.06.2007)
• No Sex Please, We're Neandertals (18.05.2007)