A MAN who died about 60,000 years ago in Australia may be about to turn our
theory of human origins on its head. Researchers in Australia have accomplished
the extremely difficult feat of extracting DNA from his skeleton, and were
astonished to find that it looks like nothing they have ever seen before.
The DNA, which is the oldest ever recovered from human remains, shows that
while the man is completely anatomically modern, he came from a genetic lineage
that is now extinct. This finding challenges the prevailing theory that all
modern humans are descended from a group of…
