Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans

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Some 40,000 years ago, Cro-Magnons -- the first people who had a skeleton that looked anatomically modern -- entered Europe, coming from Africa. A group of geneticists, coordinated by Guido Barbujani and David Caramelli of the Universities of Ferrara and Florence, shows that a Cro-Magnoid individual who lived in Southern Italy 28,000 years ago was a modern European, genetically as well as anatomically.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204741.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204741.htm