Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Earliest humans revealed by DNA

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According to John Hooper, the Basques are the oldest race in Europe and so old are they that some have speculated that they might be descended from Neanderthals rather than homo sapiens. When I mentioned this on Facebook, one or two people instead of finding it funny, as I intended, accused me of repeating 19th century racist ideas. Oh dear. Neanderthals and another mystery species are in the news today but not in the Basque country.

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