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

[Annik]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28...36289.html


This is very interesting.

[Anomalocaris]

His DNA must be extremely interesting since he apparently had the superpower that allowed him to exist even before almighty God created him a thousand years later.

[ElijahDrew]

Odd that just yesterday I did a Google search for "oldest human bones found" when someone got me on the topic of mummies.

[Minimalist]

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."

[Annik]

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.

EDIT: Oldest Modern Human DNA, of course.

[Minimalist]

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!

[Cyberman]

But this clearly doesn't prove Evolution or common ancestry because you don't know the function of every single one of those 99.7% base pairs. (I do beg your pardon; I think I'm channelling again.)

[Minimalist]

Yeah....whatever happened to that asshole?

[Reforged]

Wonder if they could clone a caveman if they gather enough DNA... hope they could do it with the dodo.
Heard they tasted delicious.

[Minimalist]

This caveman would look pretty much like us.

Probably have the intelligence of G-C, though.

You know....trying to eat rocks and shit.