About the Authors

Tomislav Maricic

tomislav_maricic@eva.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Mark Whitten

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Svante Pääbo

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM. Performed the experiments: MW. Analyzed the data: TM. Wrote the paper: TM SP.