Oldest DNA Recovered From 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons In Spain 146
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.'"
Santa is just an anagram (Score:5, Funny)
They were planted there by Satan to test your faith in the Earth being 6000 years old.
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BMO
Re:Why ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why ? (Score:4, Funny)
food of course, they are basically just giant chickens
Re:But where are they? (Score:5, 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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BMO
Re:Gays! (Score:3, 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... (Score:3, Funny)
Not perpetuating the stereotype of spaniards as gay cavemen.
Re:Blue eyes (Score:5, 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 (Score:5, Funny)
You are citing from them ? (Score:5, Funny)
You gotta kidding me , right ? You are DAMN fucking me ? "Creation magazine" ? Pleeease.