Sunday 5 October 2014

Discovery of 2,330-Year-Old Human Skeleton Throws Light on Our Ancestry

The discovery of a 2,330-year-old human skeleton in the southernmost tip of Africa, throw some light on human origins, reveals a new research. DNA from the complete 1.5 metre tall skeleton 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. The man's maternal DNA or 'mitochondrial DNA' was sequenced to provide clues to early modern human ...

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