Well, the DNA recovered from Neandertals was 34,000 years old. The first identified hominid ancestors of humans are, I believe, about 4.2 million years old -- over 1,000 times older. Their bones have been replaced by minerals and I can not see how we can hope to recover DNA. However, the similarities and changes from one kind of hominid fossil to another enables us to see relationships.
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Originally posted by bkwusa:
i was thinking somethink along dna test to compare them to modern humans like they have done with the Neandeatal http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/dna.html here is a link to the finding to the neanderthal study... i was wondering if there was any possibility they did the same with the other found fossils...
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