World's oldest human DNA found in 800,000-year-old tooth of a cannibal

World's Oldest Human DNA Found in 800,000-Year-Old Tooth of a Cannibal. The discovery will now help in clarifying the place of the mysterious extinct species called the Homo antecessor in the human evolutionary lineage.

[kylealexander]

Im not sure im following you. Did they sequence his genome? Or was it to damaged?

[zeldapinwheel]

You mean they aren't homo sapiens. Neanderthals and Denisovans were also human.