Spain - Oldest human DNA
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Anthropologists said Wednesday they had decoded the oldest DNA ever found in the human family, extracted from a 400,000-year-old thigh bone found in a pit in Spain.
The feat expands knowledge of human genetics by some 300,000 years, they said, but also suggests the odyssey of Man’s evolution may have been more convoluted than thought.
The bone was dug up at a presumed burial site dubbed the Sima de los Huesos (“Pit of Bones”), preserved by a deep subterranean chill in Spain’s northern Sierra de Atapuerca highlands. The previous oldest sequence was that of a girl who lived about 80,000 years ago from an Asian group called the Denisovans.
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