Separated by 10,000 Years but Linked by DNA! 🧬⏳

Описание: In an astonishing discovery, scientists traced the DNA of a 9,000-year-old skeleton known as Cheddar Man - to a living relative residing just half a mile away!

Cheddar Man was discovered in 1903 in Gough’s Cave, Somerset, England. He lived during the Mesolithic period and is one of Britain’s oldest complete human skeletons. In the 1990s, researchers extracted mitochondrial DNA from his remains and compared it to local residents. The results revealed that Adrian Targett, a history teacher in Cheddar, shares a direct maternal lineage with Cheddar Man, tracing back nearly 300 generations!

This discovery highlights an incredible continuity of ancestry in the region and challenges assumptions about population movement in prehistoric Britain.

Source:
📌 National History Museum: nhm.ac.uk
📌 The Independent: independent.co.uk
📌 BBC News: bbc.co.uk

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