“Largest Family Tree” Is Helping Trace the Entirety of Human History [Ancient Origins, March 2022]

Title:

“Largest Family Tree” Is Helping Trace the Entirety of Human History

 

Published:

Ancient Origins, 3 March 2022

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/largest-family-tree-0016485

 

From the article:

Researchers from Oxford University’s Big Data Institute have engaged in the most Herculean of tasks and combined ancient and modern DNA to record the largest family tree ever made, dating back a whopping 100,000 years! Published in the journal Human Evolution earlier this week, the study allows individuals to ascertain who their far removed and distant ancestors are, and also links to people alive today.

Ancient DNA Suggests Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth More Recently Than Thought [SciTechDaily, January 2022]

Title:

Ancient DNA Suggests Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth More Recently Than Thought

 

By:

Tyler J. Murchie, McMaster University

 

Published:

SciTechDaily, 31 January 2022

https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-dna-suggests-woolly-mammoths-roamed-the-earth-more-recently-than-thought/

 

From the article:

In 2010, small cores of permafrost sediments were collected by a team at the University of Alberta from gold mines in the Klondike region of central Yukon. They had remained in cold storage until paleogeneticists at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre applied new genomics techniques to better understand the global extinction of megafauna that had culminated in North America some 12,700 years ago.