Jim Mullins - Neanderthal Genome narration VO

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in 2010. The announcement of the discovery and analysis of mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, from the Denise of a Haman in from Siberia revealed that this specimen differs from that of modern humans by 385 bases, or nucleotides, in the MT. D N a strand out of approximately 16,500. Even though this hominids mtDNA lineage predates the diversions of modern humans and Neanderthals, coalescence theory does not preclude a more recent diversion state for her nuclear DNA.