Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans: Remarks and methodological dangers of a dental calculus microbiome analysis

J Hum Evol. 2019 Jan:126:124-126. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.06.007. Epub 2018 Jul 18.

¹ UFR of Health Sciences (UVSQ, DANTE Laboratory EA 4498), 2 avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; CASH & IPES, 403 avenue de la République, 92000 Nanterre, France; Museum of Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 222 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris, France. Electronic address: philippe.charlier@uvsq.fr.
² Université de Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France.
³ Department of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire of Brest, Cavale Blanche Hospital, Brest, France; Microbiota Axis, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1078 "Genomics, Genetics, and Biotechnologies", Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, Faculty of Medicine, Brest, France.

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Keywords: Human evolution; Hybridization; Medical anthropology; Microbiome; Paleopathology.

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