[HN Gopher] Otzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Y...
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       Otzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later
        
       Author : ilamont
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2026-03-28 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.familytreedna.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.familytreedna.com)
        
       | kitd wrote:
       | There's a similar story about a modern relative of Cheddar Man,
       | this one going back 10000 years. Even more incredibly, the modern
       | relative lives just down the road from where the ancient ancestor
       | was found.
       | 
       | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-family-link-that-reac...
        
         | vkou wrote:
         | That man is a direct descendant. The man in the article is not.
        
       | vkou wrote:
       | The modern man was not a descendant of Otzi - he just had a
       | common ancestor that lived two thousand years before Otzi.
       | 
       | If you go far enough back, I am also a relative of Otzi, through
       | mitochondrial Eve.
        
       | netsharc wrote:
       | Did Courtney Eberhard, Senior Marketing Specialist at
       | FamilyTreeDNA use AI to write this article? It reads like it.
        
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