{"id":3316,"date":"2014-10-22T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:43:17","slug":"genome-of-a-45000-year-old-modern-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/genome-of-a-45000-year-old-modern-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Genome of a 45,000-year-old modern human<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3320\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase6458d0e4e0e42fdb34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3320\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase6458d0e4e0e42fdb34.png\" alt=\"The femur of a 45,000 year-old male found near the settement of Ust'-Ishim in Sibera. (Credit: Bence Viola, MPI EVA)\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase6458d0e4e0e42fdb34.png 432w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase6458d0e4e0e42fdb34-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The femur of a 45,000 year-old male found near the settement of Ust&#8217;-Ishim in Sibera. (Credit: Bence Viola, MPI EVA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers have found that the genome of a 45,000-year-old human from Siberia is quite similar to the genome of modern Native Americans and East Asians and carries similar amount of Neanderthal ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of the Siberian male are believed by the authors to represent the oldest directly radiocarbon-dated modern human outside Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0researchers\u00a0conclude that the interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals occurred between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, a more precise range than previous estimates (between 37,000 and 86,000 years ago).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/oldest-known-human-genome-sequenced-1.16194\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>October 22, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anth.ubc.ca\/faculty-and-staff\/michael-richards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael P. Richards<\/a><\/span>, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that the genome of a 45,000-year-old human from Siberia is quite similar to the genome of modern Native Americans and East Asians and carries similar amount of Neanderthal ancestry. The remains of the Siberian male are believed by the authors to represent the oldest directly radiocarbon-dated modern human outside Africa and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1851,125,917,265],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-british-columbia","tag-evolution","tag-fossil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase6458d0e4e0e42fdb34.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}