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When Researchers Determined That the Jawbone of an Italian Neanderthal

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When researchers determined that the jawbone of an Italian Neanderthal dating to around 43-45 tya showed the presence of an intermediate chin and mitochondrial Neanderthal DNA,they hypothesized that the jawbone belonged to an individual who was the product of a mating between a modern human and a Neanderthal.Which of the following lines of evidence would also support this hypothesis?

When researchers determined that the jawbone of an Italian Neanderthal dating to around 43-45 tya showed the presence of an intermediate chin and mitochondrial Neanderthal DNA,they hypothesized that the jawbone belonged to an individual who was the product of a mating between a modern human and a Neanderthal.Which of the following lines of evidence would also support this hypothesis?


A) The fossil would have both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens genomic DNA.
B) The fossil would have only Neanderthal mitochondrial and genomic DNA.
C) The fossil would have only Neanderthal genomic DNA.
D) The fossil would have both Neanderthal and Homo habilis genomic DNA.

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