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The contribution of ancient hominin genomes from Siberia to our understanding of human evolution

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Original Russian Text © S. Pääbo, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 10, pp. 879–884.

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Pääbo, S. The contribution of ancient hominin genomes from Siberia to our understanding of human evolution. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 392–396 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615050081

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