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Tag Archives: Ancient DNA
The importance of 300,000 year old cave bear mtDNA
A just released paper in PNAS that reconstructs the mitochondrial DNA of a >300,000 year old cave bear lineage is getting some attention…and for good reason (Dabney, et al., 2013). You might wonder who cares about ancient cave bear lineages … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Genetics
Tagged aDNA, Ancient DNA, Atapuerca, cave bear, Denisova, Neandertal, sima de los huesos
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“with a morphology similar to present-day humans”
Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. That is the opening line of an abstract from Fu, et al. (2013) detailing ancient DNA from ~40,000 year old … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Genetics
Tagged Ancient DNA, China, Late Pleistocene, modern human origins, Tianyuan Cave
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