Oldest ever modern human DNA unearthed in Spain

[Jagran Post]  Scientists claim to have collected the oldest fragment of the modern human genome from the bones of two 7,000-year-old cavemen unearthed in Spain. These findings, published in the journal Current Biology, suggest that the cavemen in that region were not the ancestors of the people found there on Friday, the researchers said. "These are the oldest partial genomes from modern human prehistory," researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogeneticist at the Spanish National Research Council, told LiveScience.