Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'
Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7062415.stm

By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, Murcia, Spain

Some Neanderthals were probably redheads, a DNA study has shown.

Writing in Science journal, a team of researchers extracted DNA
from remains of two Neanderthals and retrieved part of an important
gene called MC1R.

In modern people, a change - or mutation - in this gene causes red
hair, but, until now, no one knew what hair colour our extinct
relatives had.

By analysing a version of the gene in Neanderthals, scientists
found that they also have sported fiery locks.

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