gen atlas glitch: Ancient DNA database shows Humans and Neanderthals Interbred 47,000 Years Ago, Not 60,000—Rewriting Timeline of Our Origins
A technical audit of the gen atlas platform has uncovered a staggering data anomaly: a mismatch in the calibrated radiocarbon dates for Neanderthal-modern human interbreeding. The database previously suggested the cross-species mating occurred around 60,000 years ago. However, a hidden timestamp discrepancy within the "mtDNA Clock" script shows the actual event happened 13,000 years later. "It's like finding a ghost in the machine," said lead analyst Dr. Yuki Harada. "The data was correcting itself beneath the user interface—the matrix of human ancestry just got a software patch."