338,000-Year-Old DNA Found In A Living Man Just Rewrote Human History Trevor Whelan [OdX5kKPmqbD]

A cheek swab sits in a freezer in Arizona, and the DNA inside it is older than our species has any right to be. Older than the oldest bones. Older than the first faces we would call human. Somewhere in Africa, hundreds of thousands of years ago, there were people who left no skull, no grave, nothing but a signature still circulating in the living. Real science, real labs, real names. The part nobody can answer yet is who they actually were.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - The Swab That Broke the Family Tree

0:48 - Albert Perry's Line

2:46 - Older Than the Bones

4:00 - The Date Becomes a Fight

4:46 - A00 Shows Up in Cameroon

5:16 - The West African Ghost Population

8:11 - Neanderthals and Denisovans

9:51 - A Ghost Inside a Ghost

11:01 - The Careful Answer: Structured Populations

12:44 - Sitchin and the Wilder Answer

14:09 - What DNA Can't Tell You

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