Neanderthals are almost TWICE as old as first thought: DNA suggests emerged 700,000 years ago

The London Daily Mail ^ | September 14, 2015 | Richard Gray

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They are one of our closest human relatives and dominated Europe and much of Asia for hundreds of thousands of years, but Neanderthals may be far older than previously thought.

A new study by geneticists has revealed a collection of fossilised bones discovered in a cave in northern Spain belonged to an early member of the Neanderthal family.

It is the oldest partial genome from early human fossils ever to be sequenced and pushes back the date for the origins of the Neanderthal branch of our evolutionary tree by up to 300,000 years....

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Apparently she was older than we thought as well.................

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All my teachers were Neanderthals.................