Archaeoscoop: Oldest Ever Hominin DNA Found!

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Today we hear of the oldest Hominin DNA yet recovered...

1) Oldest Hominin DNA Ever Sequenced:

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[JimJWalker]

This is the most exciting field of science today. Great stuff.

[DaithiDublin]

The genome of a 400k year old ancestor? That is incredible stuff.

[dwightehowell]

The one thing that keeps showing up to me is that populations spread out, diverge and mix but what you end up with is a lot of (repeated) replacement with only a modest amount of introgression. That's pretty much the way selection is working. One population is replacing another with the advantage of the replacing population more likely to be cultural than biological.