Oldest DNA Recovered From 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons In Spain

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Oldest DNA Recovered From 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons In Spain

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 1, 2012 @08:52PM from the original-markers dept.

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.'"

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Santa is just an anagram by bmo · 2012-07-01 20:55 · Score: 4, Funny

They were planted there by Satan to test your faith in the Earth being 6000 years old.
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Re:Why ? by lazarith · 2012-07-01 21:07 · Score: 5, Funny

So that we can create an amusement park and sell tickets? Duh.... It's not as if it could end badly or anything.
Re:Why ? by zero.kalvin · 2012-07-01 21:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Science doesn't ask why should we! Science asks why the heck not put chainsaws on bears and fit them with jetpacks you insensitive clod!
Re:Why ? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-01 21:09 · Score: 4, Funny

food of course, they are basically just giant chickens
Re:But where are they? by bmo · 2012-07-01 21:49 · Score: 4, Funny

You know when you tell a joke at a party and the entire room goes silent at the punch line?
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Re:Gays! by RivenAleem · 2012-07-01 22:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Yes, but one was holding a Football. The Scientists believe this to be the original Real Madrid and Barcelona FC captains.
Oh how I wish Slashdot would consider... by outsider007 · 2012-07-01 22:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Not perpetuating the stereotype of spaniards as gay cavemen.

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Re:Blue eyes by azalin · 2012-07-01 22:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Did you know that all blue man are descended from a single individual who lived only 10,000 years ago ?
That's why we call them the blue man group.
This is bad by Errol+backfiring · 2012-07-02 00:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Can't you even have privacy if you are dead for 7000 years?

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You are citing from them ? by aepervius · 2012-07-02 01:58 · Score: 4, Funny

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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