最古老的人类基因组：研究人员解决了祖先的难题！

最古老的人类基因组：研究人员解决了祖先的难题！

researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have gained groundbreaking findings on the evolution of modern humans. You have deciphered the oldest known genome of a Homo sapiens that is dated to about 45,000 years. The remains come from human bones found in the Ilsen cave in Ranis, Thuringia. These finds are exceptionally well preserved, which enabled scientists to isolate a complete genome and thus establish a direct connection to one of the earliest groups of modern people who migrated to Europe, such as Deutschlandfunk Kultur reports .

The results that were recently published in the journals "Nature" and "Science" show not only that these early modern people had dark skin, dark eyes and dark hair, but also that they were genetically closely related to a group of people from the Czech Republic. Surprisingly, however, it turns out that these early people are not direct ancestors of today's Europeans. They died out without leaving offspring, although all people whose ancestors do not come from Africa, traces of Neanderthal-Dna, as Tagesschau reports .

clarity about the migration of modern man

The analysis of the genome points out that the mixing between modern humans and the Neanderthals took place 45,000 to 49,000 years ago. This knowledge is not only important for the understanding of our past, but also for research into genetic diversity and adjustments in today's population. The study shows that there was only a small group of modern people in Central Europe, which was distributed from Great Britain to Poland, which reveals the questions about human history, migration and evolution.

Of course, these discoveries raise many questions, such as everyday life and social structures of these early people. According to AREV Sümer from the Max Planck Institute, the fascination for working with such old remains remains unbroken and the questions about human evolution will continue to be of immense importance. Their legacy that they left could help us to better understand the basic changes in the biology and way of life of modern people over the past 45,000 years.