New technology will unravel mysteries of ancient humans and shed light on our origins

The last few months has seen the release of several ground-breaking research studies which are beginning to demystify our ancient origins.  This included the first ever complete sequencing of a Neanderthal genome, and two new studies which screened modern genomes for sequences with distinctive Neanderthal features.  Now scientists have announced that they have a new technique that enables them to weed out contamination from modern humans in the analysis of ancient DNA.