Ancient human genome from southern Africa throws light on our origins
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 09:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
What can DNA from the skeleton of a man who lived 2,330 years ago in the southernmost tip of Africa tell us about ourselves as humans? A great deal when his DNA profile is one of the 'earliest diverged' – oldest in genetic terms – found to-date in a region where modern humans are believed to have originated roughly 200,000 years ago.