Ancient DNA shows earliest European genomes weathered the Ice Age
Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A ground-breaking new study on DNA recovered from a fossil of one of the earliest known Europeans - a man who lived 36,000 years ago in Kostenki, western Russia - has shown that the earliest European humans' genetic ancestry survived the Last Glacial Maximum: the peak point of the last ice age.