Oldest extracted human DNA

A team of French and Belgian researchers have extracted DNA from the tooth of a Neanderthal child who lived in the Meuse Basin, Belgium, around 100,000 years ago. The analysis of the DNA, released in June 2006, shows that Neanderthals had a greater genetic diversity 100,000 years ago than they did by the time modern humans arrived in Europe around 35,000 years ago.