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""Dental plaque traps microorganisms that lived in the mouth and pathogens found in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, as well as bits of food stuck in the teeth – preserving the DNA for thousands of years," said Dr. Laura Weyrich, a researcher at the University of Adelaide and lead author of the study, published in the journal Nature.
"Genetic analysis of that DNA ‘locked-up' in plaque, represents a unique window into Neanderthal lifestyle — revealing new details of what they ate, what their health was like and how the environment impacted their behavior."
Dr. Weyrich and co-authors analyzed and compared dental plaque samples (42,000-50,000 years old) from four Neanderthals found at the cave sites of Spy in Belgium and El Sidrón in northern Spain…"
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