Here’s the full text of the article (about which I linked yesterday) on the DNA of the ~40k year old human from China:

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

The person’s mtDNA haplogroup is assigned to the “B” supergroup, the same one as many East Asians and native North Americans.

BTW, according to Ken Ham and the literalists, the eastern Europeans and rest of the Asians are supposed to be descended from the same person as these groups above… but clearly the mtDNA shows they are not. Not that Ken Ham will change his mind or anything.

From the PNAS paper summary:

The DNA hybridization capture strategy described here allows sequencing of large sections (>>1 Mbp) of the nuclear genome from mammalian samples even in the presence of a large excess of microbial DNA, a situation typical of almost all ancient samples outside permafrost regions. This opens the possibility of generating DNA sequences from previously inaccessible ancient samples. We use this capture strategy to analyze an early modern human, the Tianyuan individual, who contains less than 0.03% endogenous DNA.

The results show that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native Americans. However, they had already diverged from the ancestors of present-day Europeans.

That Europeans and East Asians had diverged by 40,000 y ago is consistent with dates for the first archaeological appearance of modern humans in Europe and also with the upper end of an estimate [23 ka BP (95% CI: 17–43 ka BP)] for the divergence of East Asian and European populations from nuclear DNA variation in present-day populations (34). The results also show that the Tianyuan individual did not carry any larger proportion of Neandertal or Denisovan DNA sequences in its genome than present-day people in the region. More analyses of additional early modern humans across Eurasia will further refine our understanding of when and how modern humans spread across Eurasia.