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Lengths of Neandertal and human mtDNA fragments. Distributions of mtDNA fragments carrying Neandertal diagnostic positions are shown in blue for three Neandertal fossils. Each red dot represents a single contaminating human mtDNA fragment of the indicated length (data from Briggs et al, 2009).
