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Viviane Slon among Nature's annual Top Ten

Nature magazine includes Max Planck researcher in its list of top ten personalities that most influenced science in 2018

Starting with a tiny piece of bone, the French researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig discovered that the parents of a girl born about 90,000 years ago were a Neanderthal (mother) and Denisovan (father). This genetic information provides insights into the history of humankind.

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