Oldest human genome discovered

A bone found by chance on the banks of a Siberian river has yielded the oldest modern human genome yet recovered.

The new study, published in the journal 'Nature', sheds light on when people left Africa and first interbred with Neanderthals living in Europe and Asia.

45,000-year-old man was human-Neanderthal mix

A bone found by chance on the banks of a Siberian river has yielded the oldest modern human genome yet recovered.