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Neanderthal Ancestry Identifies Oldest Modern Human Genome
The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population that formed before the ancestors of present-day Europeans and Asians split apart.
In an article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international team of researchers sequence the genome of an almost complete skull first discovered in Zlatý Kůň, Czechia in 1950. The segments of Neanderthal DNA in its genome were longer than those of the Ust’-Ishim individual from Siberia, the previous oldest modern human sequenced, suggesting modern humans lived in the heart of Europe more than 45,000 years ago.
Credit: MPI-SHH
