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Oldest DNA Recovered From 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons In Spain
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers published a paper in the current issue of Current Biology detailing their analysis of DNA from 7,000-year old cavemen in northern Spain. From the article: 'The bones of the two young adult males were found in a cave in the Cantabarian mountain range in 2006 by a handful of explorers, 4,920 feet above sea level. The cold atmosphere is what preserved the DNA in the remains of the two bodies. The cavemen lived during the Mesolithic period and were hunter-gatherers, as determined by an ornament one of the skeletons was holding. They have named the two skeletons Braña1 and Braña2 after the Braña-Arintero site in which they were discovered. They were in near-perfect condition.'"
When are we cloning dinosaurs?
They were planted there by Satan to test your faith in the Earth being 6000 years old.
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Where are the 7000 year old cavewomen?!
120 characters ought to be enough for anyone
When are we cloning dinosaurs?
Why should we?
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Were they holding hands?
It's not the oldest dna, but the oldest human DNA that they've found. This site reports DNA extracted from a 20 million year magnolia leaf.
I thought that the earliest DNA recovered from early man was much older than this. Haven't we compared Neanderthal DNA to modern human DNA?
Why does the article claim that this is the "oldest" DNA? There have been plenty of ancient DNA studies that recovered significantly older DNA.
Did you know that all blue man are descended from a single individual who lived only 10,000 years ago ?
Not perpetuating the stereotype of spaniards as gay cavemen.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
Seems to be jumping to a conclusion saying they were hunter gatherers by an ornament one was holding. I mean, they probably were just by the lack of agricultural evidence from that era, but what you are holding when you die hardly indicates the nature of your entire culture.
I'd be much more interested in the DNA from these explorers that are so tiny that you can measure them by the handful.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Seems to be jumping to a conclusion saying they were hunter gatherers by an ornament one was holding. I mean, they probably were just by the lack of agricultural evidence from that era, but what you are holding when you die hardly indicates the nature of your entire culture.
When I die they're going to find an iPhone.
it is Cantabrian mountain. Cantabria is a northern region in Spain.
Can't you even have privacy if you are dead for 7000 years?
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
4004BC plus 2012 AD and -1 since there was no year zero = 6015 years
So yeah it must be imaginary, like we imagine that we can see other Galaxies millions or billions of light years away
“These are the oldest partial genomes from modern human prehistory,” said researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogeneticist at the Spanish National Research Council.
He qualifies it with "modern human", which makes sense for a 7000 year old skeleton.
It's like Encino Man!
Anyone else find irony in the fact that a journal named Current Biology publishes an article about 7000 year old DNA?
The sad thing is, most Americans actually believe that.
You aint been clubbing...until you have been clubbing with Cavemen!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
If they found your DNA, and cloned you, it wouldn't be YOU. It would just be a copy of you, like a twin.
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http://creation.com/about-us#what_we_believe
You gotta kidding me , right ? You are DAMN fucking me ? "Creation magazine" ? Pleeease.
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I hear filling in the gaps with frog DNA works great.
Once we compare it to our modern DNA, this 7,000 year old sample will finally reveal to us the changes that the aliens have made to our DNA after thousands of years of genetic manipulation!
And more detriorated. But shot-gun fragment analysis has recovered over 85% of a Neandertal genome. Enough to make detailed analysis to say how its related to homo sapiens.
Remember, when arguing with a creationist, that the "possibility" of their argument is all that matters, not the "probability". The creationist counter-argument is:
1. A light-year is a unit of distance, not time, so does not prove age older than 6,000 years.
2. God created "light" as a separate creation event, so the light from the star is just the illumination of God-created light. If you deny that God created the light, then you have to presume that the light traveled for millions of years from the apparent source. An analogy is if you see an arrow in a tree, you might reasonably presume that someone recently used a bow to shoot it, but reality might be that I just jabbed it into the wall with my hand. The point supposedly being that unless you know the whole story [as revealed in the Bible] your deductive reasoning is going to fall short.
I'll be damned if one day I wake up inside the fortress of DOOM
Sounds like a reasonable definition of damnation to me.
Have gnu, will travel.
The sad thing is, most Americans actually believe that.
Posting anonymously as I'm moderating on this thread...
Why was this modded down as a troll? I'm an American and while I don't believe that bullshit, a large number of Americans (perhaps not a majority, but certainly a plurality) do. It's definitely -1 offtopic, or even -1 flamebait, but troll? I don't think so.
OK, so now we have a data point.
Hmmmmm... maybe someone should inject formaldehyde "on a accident" to denature all the DNA before hate-facts surface.
Seastead this.
Actually, DNA was sequenced from prehistoric human brain tissue from the Windover archaeological site in Florida, which is from 7,000 to 8,000 years old. So, at best the DNA from Spain is a tie for oldest.
Can't bl***y type. The site is the "Wendover" site. Besides which, the Mesolithic is not considered the period of "cavemen," which ended with the Pleistocene. It is an absurd characterization any way.
that oughta give hardcore 'jeezes created the world 33 years before he got nailed to a board' creationists something else to think about
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?