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(220715) -- KUNMING, July 15, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Undated photo provided by Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics shows the skull of Mengzi Ren (MZR) in Mengzi, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Scientists have unveiled a Late Pleistocene human genome from southwest China. Their findings were published online in the journal Current Biology on Thursday night. The scientists conducted the genome sequencing of the 14,000-year-old human remains of the "Mengzi Ren (MZR)," which were unearthed in 1989 in a cave in Mengzi, Yunnan Province. More than 30 human fossils, as well as fossils of animals such as the red deer, the macaque and the black bear, were discovered in the cave. TO GO WITH "Chinese scientists sequence genome of 14,000-yr-old human" (Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics/Handout via Xinhua)

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