#The oldest Neanderthal DNA of Central-Eastern Europe
“#The oldest Neanderthal DNA of Central-Eastern Europe” Aerial view of Stajnia Cave. Credit: Marcin Zarski Around 100,000 years ago, the climate changed abruptly and the environment of Central-Eastern Europe shifted from forested to open steppe/taiga habitat, promoting the dispersal of wooly mammoth, wooly rhino and other cold adapted species from the Arctic. Neanderthals living in…