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Modern humans may have overcome Neanderthals, but they have yet to figure them out.

Now a multimillion-dollar project to decipher the genetic code of Neanderthals may help explain not only why humanity's closest cousin became extinct but also which genetic features have made Homo sapiens so successful.

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/21/1625230