Sequencing of oldest human DNA throws up some unexpected results

by konceptual99 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  konceptual99

  Heard this reported on the BBC Radio 4 news just now

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-sequence-oldest-human-dna-from-fossilised-leg-bone-found-in-spain-8983416.html

  Snippet of the report...

  Its DNA sequence indicates that this early European was more closely related to a much earlier species of human living in Siberia about 700,000 years ago than to the later Neanderthals of Europe who became extinct about 30,000 years ago.

  The genetic link between early Europeans and even earlier Asians has surprised researchers who had expected to find a closer genetic relationship to the later Neanderthals, who had occupied Europe for tens of thousands of years before eventually dying out after anatomically-modern humans arrived.
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  NAVYTOWN

  I like to ask JWs: 'Are all the Neanderthals going to be resurrected???'.
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  fulltimestudent

  NAVYTOWN:

  I like to ask JWs: 'Are all the Neanderthals going to be resurrected???'.

  uhuh!! - wonderful question? Have you had any answers?
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  Gopher

  Are all the Neanderthals going to be resurrected???

  "They already have. Some are in our body of elders."
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  144001

  Damn it, Gopher, you beat me to it!!!
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  Oubliette

  So "anatomically modern humans" are older than Neaderthals?
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  cofty

  Thanks for the link.
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  jgnat

  Oubliette, I'd take this to mean that the ancestors to modern humans and Neanderthals existed together for some time, and the Neanderthals died out first. We may not have interbred that much.
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  prologos

  G, since we know evolution for a fact, were they not the

  missing link in the olden days?
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  cofty

  There is no such thing as a "missing link", never has been.

  Please see Ernst Mayer on Platonic Essentialism...