Oldest DNA in the world breaks record by a million years
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DNA dated at two million years old has been discovered for the first time, breaking the million-year record and marking…
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Sediments Acquired from Antarctica Reveals One-Million-Year-Old DNA
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Understanding the past climate of our planet is of great importance if we are to understand how natural climatological cycles…
Ancient DNA Puts Native American Origins in Southern China
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Researchers have sequenced the genomes of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China for the first time….
Previously Unknown Human Population Found
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Paleogeneticists analyzed sediment samples from the Georgian cave of Satsurbia and found ancient DNA fragments of a wolf, a bison, as well as a person who lived about 25 thousand years ago. The woman whose DNA was studied belonged to a completely unknown human population.
Only 7% of our DNA is Unique to Modern Humans
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American geneticists analyzed 279 genomes of modern and 3 archaic people and found that the human genome is only 1.5-7 percent unique in relation to other hominins.