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Ancient humans had sex with a mysterious species, scientists discover
News.com.au ^ | July 25, 2017 | Jasper Hamill

Posted on 07/25/2017 4:08:29 PM PDT by Candor7

HUMANITY has a filthy secret: our ancestors used to have sex with members of other species. That’s the finding in a new piece of research which suggests ancient people used to romp with a “ghost” species of proto human.

We are just one of a number of species known as hominins. Members of this family include Neanderthals and Denisovans, which are no longer found on Earth. “It seems that interbreeding between different early hominin species is not the exception — it’s the norm,” said Omer Gokcumen, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Buffalo.

Gokcumen tested the DNA of humans living in Sub-Saharan Africa and found genes which were “wildly different from versions found in other modern humans”. These genes probably trace back to prehistoric rumpy pumpy which probably took place about 150,000 years ago between our ancestors and a mysterious species.

“Based on our analysis, the most plausible explanation for this extreme variation is archaic introgression — the introduction of genetic material from a ‘ghost’ species of ancient hominins,” Gokcumen added. “This unknown human relative could be a species that has been discovered, such as a subspecies of Homo erectus, or an undiscovered hominin. “We call it a ‘ghost’ species because we don’t have the fossils.” People living today would be a lot more like Neanderthals had it not been for a quirk of evolutionary fate.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: genes; ghost; interbreeding; mystery; nephilim
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To: Candor7
Erectus Walks Amongst Us
61 posted on 07/25/2017 5:00:37 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Candor7
Anyone need any more proof?


62 posted on 07/25/2017 5:00:43 PM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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To: Impy

Homo-uglyious


63 posted on 07/25/2017 5:01:21 PM PDT by jerod (Socialism=Governance by Government - The National Socialist German Workers' Party is a good example.)
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To: Skywise

First thing I thought of.


65 posted on 07/25/2017 5:02:32 PM PDT by LadyShires
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To: piasa
If they can interbreed and produce viable fertile offspring, they’re not a different species. They’re human.

A decent rule of thumb, but it's more complicated than that according to the wikipedia article on species. It sort of like the famous Supreme Court Justice's definition of porno: I know it when I see it.

66 posted on 07/25/2017 5:03:00 PM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: BenLurkin
Vasquez now has a high end undergarment boutique in Los Angeles My wife shops there once in while Jennette is a real nice lady
67 posted on 07/25/2017 5:03:43 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: faithhopecharity

Half dumb and half stupid


68 posted on 07/25/2017 5:04:13 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: al baby

yes, except he made out like a bandit


69 posted on 07/25/2017 5:07:15 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Candor7

If our ancestors could successfully interbreed with them, then they were not a different species, just a different race.


70 posted on 07/25/2017 5:10:04 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: al baby

Awesome!


71 posted on 07/25/2017 5:10:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Candor7

Any port in a storm?


72 posted on 07/25/2017 5:30:03 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Candor7

This is how we have lawyers....


73 posted on 07/25/2017 5:30:21 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: hadaclueonce

72 posts, yet all missed the oldest joke


74 posted on 07/25/2017 5:31:40 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Candor7
"When men were men
and sheep other species were nervous."

(except in the Middle East, where sheep are still nervous)

75 posted on 07/25/2017 5:44:29 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Candor7

76 posted on 07/25/2017 5:45:59 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

LMFAO!


77 posted on 07/25/2017 5:50:59 PM PDT by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: Candor7
Neanderthal girls are easy.


78 posted on 07/25/2017 5:55:11 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Innovative

Like the ones that like to burn down their own neighborhoods and jump on vehicles to make them more compact so they burn better. And the only thing they make is more of themselves since the productive part of society feeds, clothes and help house them. YEAH! I got it!


79 posted on 07/25/2017 5:57:35 PM PDT by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun" as it's coming.)
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To: BenLurkin; Lazamataz

I could be talked into some “rumpy pumpy” with #3 if laz would let her loose.


80 posted on 07/25/2017 6:01:00 PM PDT by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun" as it's coming.)
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