7,000 Year Old Caveman Bones Found; Oldest Modern Human DNA

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The oldest "human" bones are dated to 195,000 years ago...which is not to say that usable DNA can be extracted from them.

Then of course we get back into the whole neanderthal,heidelbergensis, erectus question of what is really "human."

This is why I was careful to say that the DNA was the oldest, not the bones themselves.

Right. Of course the Neanderthal Genome Project extracted DNA from a 38,000 year old HNS femur and found:

At roughly 3.2 billion base pairs,[3] the Neanderthal genome is about the size of the modern human genome. According to preliminary sequences, 99.7% of the base pairs of the modern human and Neanderthal genomes are identical, compared to humans sharing around 98.8% of base pairs with the chimpanzee

The last line should piss off the creatards no end!