Researchers have completing genomic sequencing of a modern human based off 45,000-year-old DNA.
Researchers have successfully decoded the genes of a 45,000-year-old man from Siberia. The results offer clues about early human life outside of Africa as well as how humans interacted with Neanderthals and other groups around at the time.
The complete set of genes is the oldest genome of its kind, according to Svante Pääbo, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. “It’s almost twice as old as the next oldest genome that has been sequenced.”
Story: Geoff Brumfiel, NPR | Photo: Bence Viola/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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