Ancient human bone reveals when we bred with Neanderthals

Friday, October 24, 2014 - 06:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

When a human bone was found on a gravelly riverbank by a bone-carver who was searching for mammoth ivory, little did he know it would provide the oldest modern-human genome yet sequenced. The anatomically modern male thigh-bone, found near the town of Ust'-Ishim in south-western Siberia, has been radiocarbon-dated to around 45,000 years old.

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