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Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

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Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...