Anthropologists found 400,000-year-old DNA from hominins

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Human remains found in an underground cave in Spain could contain missing key information to our origins.

The DNA that the researchers extracted from the remains indicated that these ancient hominins, though they looked Neanderthalic, were more genetically related to the Denisovians — a completely different ancient human species on the human evolutionary tree.

Even more intriguing, this DNA was found thousands of miles and hundreds of thousands of years away from where scientists thought Denisovians evolved, so the discovery of these remains here throws everything we thought we knew about ancient humans and how they migrated and evolved into question.