Old news to some, new news to others:
In 1997 scientists established a blood tie between a 9,000-year-old skeleton discovered in 1903 known as "Cheddar Man" and an English schoolteacher who lives just a half mile from the cave where the bones were found. Scientists compared the DNA from one of Cheddar Man's molars to that of scrapings taken from the mouths of 20 local Cheddarites, and Targett was a match.
Adrian Targett, a history teacher in the town of Cheddar in southwest England, shares a common ancestor with Cheddar Man. It is the longest human lineage ever traced.
The skeleton was originally dated at between 40,000 and 30,000 years old.


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