Svante Pääbo and his team from the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, together with a Neanderthal skeleton. From left: Adrian Briggs, Herman Burbano, Matthias Meyer, Anja Buchholz, Jesse Dabney, Kay Prüfer, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Tomislav Maricic, Qiaomei Fu, Udo Stenzel, Johannes Krause and Martin Kircher.