<P> Grimaldi man was a name given in the early 20th century to an Italian find of two paleolithic skeletons of short, but finely built people . When found, the skeletons were the subject of dubious scientific theories on human evolution, partly fueled by biased reconstruction of the skulls by the scientists involved . In the 1960s, the Grimaldi find, together with various other European finds of early modern humans, was classified as Cro - Magnon (in the wider sense), though the term "European Early Modern Humans" is today preferred for this assemblage . </P> <P> A fairly complete skeleton from the Magdalenian found in 1888 in Chancelade, France, was originally thought to have been an Eskimo . Though this interpretation is now abandoned, the short and stocky, but otherwise modern skeleton differs markedly from the Cro - Magnon finds . Similar, but more fragmentary finds are known from Laugerie - Basse and the Duruthy cave near Sorde - l'Abbaye . </P> <P> A 2003 sequencing on the mitochondrial DNA of two Cro - Magnons (23,000 - year - old Paglicci 52 and 24,720 - year - old Paglicci 12) identified the mtDNA as Haplogroup N . </P> <P> A 2015 study sequenced the genome of a 13,000 year old Cro - Magnon from Switzerland . He belonged to Y DNA Haplogroup I2a and mtDNA haplogroup U5b1h . </P>

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