title: Virtual neanderthals.
abstract: Our closest hominid relatives may have died out 30,000 years before the arrival of the computer, but thanks to modern genomics and scanning technology, they are now very present in the 21st century and can even help us understand our own species.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005260:Female; D005580:Fossils; D023281:Genomics; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D006801:Humans; D059125:Neanderthals / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D010163:Paleontology