2 recent studies sequence DNA from the earliest Homo sapiens in Eurasia – Ars Technica

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DNA from the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe adds more detail to the story of our species expansion into Eurasiaand our complicated 5,000-year relationship with Neanderthals.
The earliest traces of our species in Eurasia are a lower molar and a few fragments of bone from Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria, dating to between 46,000 and 42,000 years old. A recent paper describes DNA from those fossils, as well as a 42,000- to 37,000-year-old jawbone from the Oase site in…

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