Posted on 07/25/2016 7:47:39 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
A new study of the genomes of Australasians has revealed sections of DNA that do not match any known hominin species. The dramatic findings mean that a mystery species bred with ancient humans in the distant past and that our family tree is much more complex than previously believed.
New Scientist reports that the unknown species bred with early human ancestors when they migrated from Africa to Australasia. The surprising finding, published in the journal Nature Genetics , was made by Jaume Bertranpetit at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and his colleagues, who examined the genomes of living Indigenous Australians, Papuans, people from the Andaman Islands near India, and from mainland India. The results revealed sections of DNA that did not match any previously identified hominin species.
“These DNA sequences are not present in the genomes of living Europeans or east Asians,” reports New Scientist, “suggesting that the ancestors of these people met and bred with a mystery hominin in south Asia or the Pacific region, who left their genetic legacy in the area’s present-day populations.”
One theory is that the mystery species was Homo erectus, which was present in Asia between about 1.8 million and 33,000 years ago . However, there is no DNA from Homo erectus with which to compare to the samples from current Australasian populations.
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
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Did homo erectus go to San Francisco??
Explains Moochella?
In before the aliens guy.
Just barely
Modern science...pffftt, always late to the show.
Explains the Royals.
They must have been in space for a very, very long time to want to make that booty call.
I sure would hate to have been around that species’ bars at closing time.
So someone did Chewbacca?
My money is on Michelle Obama’s Mamma.
Are they switching to Geico?
Genesis 6:4 (ESV)
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
My first thought, too. The Nephilim, whatever or whoever they were.
Hogwash—pure unadulterated hogwash.
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