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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: genes; ghost; interbreeding; mystery; nephilim
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Praise be for fallen angels ... no, nevermind ... and Thank You Heavenly Father and never mind ...


41 posted on 07/25/2017 4:36:08 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (There is no difference between liberals/moslems/lamestream)
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To: Impy
MY EYES! MY EYES!

Presented As A Public Service
Some FReepers Will Need This



Click the Pic

42 posted on 07/25/2017 4:36:50 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Enchante

Goonie Goo Goo

43 posted on 07/25/2017 4:37:16 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: BenLurkin

44 posted on 07/25/2017 4:37:50 PM PDT by BlueDragon (left this little boy blue...)
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To: Impy

you beat me to it.


45 posted on 07/25/2017 4:40:04 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Candor7

Hmmmm...Canadians?


46 posted on 07/25/2017 4:40:27 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: Candor7
Is not Africans porting monkeys where some research indicates AIDS came from?

And then there are all these lawyers and liberals.............

47 posted on 07/25/2017 4:40:30 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Candor7
"Them boys is miscegenated!"
48 posted on 07/25/2017 4:41:27 PM PDT by Castlebar
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To: Candor7
Ancient humans had sex with a mysterious species, scientists discover

The mysterious species are sheep! Just watch some of the aerial videos of that action on YouTube (there have been links on FR)...

49 posted on 07/25/2017 4:41:50 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: mountn man
This one is a reptilian mixed between lizard people and frog people.


50 posted on 07/25/2017 4:42:06 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Candor7

Give us some more grant money and we’ll tell you their names.


51 posted on 07/25/2017 4:42:08 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: mrsmith

52 posted on 07/25/2017 4:42:12 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

53 posted on 07/25/2017 4:48:53 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: petitfour

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet


54 posted on 07/25/2017 4:50:14 PM PDT by onedoug ( KEK)
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To: piasa
If they can interbreed and produce viable fertile offspring, they’re not a different species. They’re human.

Now they are. Or they will be.

But when we thought they were different species we thought they couldn't interbreed.

The Internet is telling me that dogs and wolves are now considered the same species because they can interbreed to produce hybrids that can also interbreed.

First I've heard of it.

55 posted on 07/25/2017 4:53:24 PM PDT by x
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To: Impy; Candor7; fieldmarshaldj

Imp... good lord.... you HAVE TO post a Public Service Warning before showing a pic like that....

I think my eyes just burned out of my head...


56 posted on 07/25/2017 4:53:33 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Candor7

Obozo admitted to being halfandhalf


57 posted on 07/25/2017 4:54:06 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Candor7

Well, God created and the created creatures reproduced after their own kind.... so says Genesis 1. ( no, men and angels did not produce anything- not the same kind as we see in biologic law today) That said, man was continually evil, so bestiality or other forms of non-procreative sex obviously occurred. Then God flooded the earth killing off everything but the kinds gathered into the ark, and 8 souls.... All human and married by golly. They repopulated the earth. Man went off the farm again but God chose not to reboot a second time.

Look in the dirt, well, you’ll find dirt....


58 posted on 07/25/2017 4:55:41 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Candor7
HUMANITY has a filthy secret: our ancestors used to have sex with members of other species.

It's hard to believe Democrats have been around this long. It explains a great deal.

59 posted on 07/25/2017 4:56:34 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Candor7

“Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another
You been messin’ around!”


60 posted on 07/25/2017 4:57:37 PM PDT by lee martell
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