400,000-year-old human DNA adds new tangle to our origin story
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 13:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The oldest human DNA ever recovered is throwing scientists for a loop: The 400,000-year-old genetic material comes from bones that have been linked to Neanderthals in Spain — but its signature is most similar to that of a different ancient human population from Siberia, known as the Denisovans.