Some Neandertals possessed a pigmentation gene in an inactivated form that would have produced pale skin and possibly even red hair, a new study indicates.
A team led by Carles Lalueza-Fox of the University of Barcelona analyzed DNA extracted from two Neandertal fossils, one from Italy and the other from Spain.
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