Bones yield oldest modern human DNA
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
What may be the oldest fragments of the modern human genome found yet have now been revealed — DNA from the 7,000-year-old bones of two cavemen unearthed in Spain, researchers say.
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