I think the most telling DNA find would be one prior to the Toba eruption 74,000 BC. That is supposedly when homo sapiens sapiens lost 90% of its population base. What was in the 90% lost?
There is also some recent DNA findings which would seem to indicate the the “out of Africa” theory is bankrupt. man may have actually originated elsewhere, possibly South America.
When Flightless Birds Ruled the Land: The Terror Birds of the New World:
http://thenaturalhistorian.com/2013/03/16/terror-birds-extreme-flightless-birds-creationism/

Size comparison of various living and extinct flightless birds. The largest ones here are all extinct including the moa, elephant bird from Madagascar, and terror birds from South and North America. Image linked from:
http://getouterspace.tumblr.com/post/25857819106/giant-birds-camelidae-and-giraffidae