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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
I remember a story about a man who traced his ancestry back to a 3000 year old man they dug up called "The cheddar man". He lived about 3 miles from where he was dug up.  |
There was a skeleton of a man found in western Wales that they took DNA from to confirm its age (9700 BP, C14 date). Just as an exercise, they took the DNA from several hundred people in the area, including schoolchildren, and they found that the guy and the living people were related. They shared certain markers on the chromosomes that they managed to find, that pointed to a very long paternity.