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. 2017 Oct 3;114(40):10520-10522.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714533114. Epub 2017 Sep 25.

The last Neanderthal

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The last Neanderthal

Jean-Jacques Hublin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Contamination effect on radiocarbon dates. The black dots represent three examples of radiocarbon dates without contamination, and the red dots represent the effect of only 1% contamination by modern carbon on the same samples.

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