c. 430000 BC
Ancient DNA from Sima de los Huesos fossils related to Neanderthals
Human evolution & hominins · ADN antiguo · Neandertales · Inferencia genética
Ancient DNA recovered from roughly 430,000-year-old fossils at Sima de los Huesos, Spain, provided early genetic evidence of a population related to Neanderthals. The assignment illustrates that morphology, mitochondrial lineages, and population relationships do not always align simply. It is a genetic inference limited by preservation and sampling, not a definitive label for every European fossil of that age.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
- humanorigins.si.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2016-03-17
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2021-07-27
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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