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New genetic clues from China's ancient man

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  • 26-07-2013 12:24am
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    I've created a new thread for this since it had nothing to do with T-Rex or hadrosaur arse.

    New genetic clues from China's ancient man
    Beijing, China - Genetic evidence linking early people in China with Native Americans has been unearthed in a cave with important implications for our understanding of how humanity spread across the globe.
    DNA from an early human who lived 40,000 years ago found at Tianyuan Cave just outside Beijing also reveals the man had genes from the now-extinct Neanderthal.


    The discovery of the fisher-gatherer - one of the earliest Homo sapiens ever uncovered in China - is providing new clues about the routes our species took as it migrated from Africa.
    Qiaomei Fu, one of the scientists who studied the remains at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said the DNA indicated the caveman was genetically related to today’s Amerindians.
    "A Nature report last week on the sequencing of a complete horse genome from a bone dating to around 700,000 years ago seems to have significantly extended the known limit of DNA retrieval, thanks to new technology and exceptional preservation," Zhonghe said. "This provides the prospect of conducting DNA studies on more ancient fossils.”
    Kind of expected this one as tech moved on but more corrections on stuff they were bleating on about only a few years ago. They expect to be able to go back at least a million years now.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130626-ancient-dna-oldest-sequenced-horse-paleontology-science/


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