Is the Mysterious Siberian “X-Woman” a New Hominid Species?

Discover Magazine ^ | March 25, 2010 | Smriti Rao

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In 2008, archeologists working at the Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains discovered a tiny piece of a finger bone, believed to be a pinky, buried with ornaments in the cave. Scientists extracted the mitochondrial DNA (genetic material from the mother’s side) from the ancient bone and checked to see if its genetic code matched with the other two known forms of early hominids–Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans. What they found was a real surprise. The team, led by geneticist Svaante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute, discovered that the mtDNA from the finger bone matched neither–suggesting there might have been an entirely different hominid species that roamed the planet about 50,000 years ago.

Looking back at the region and the cave, where scientists earlier discovered artifacts from humans and Neanderthals, Paabo thinks that it is possible that all the three species (modern humans, Neanderthals and the mystery hominids) could have possibly met and interacted with each other. The findings, which were published in journal Nature, present an unexpected twist in the story of human evolution and migration.

Scientists say the DNA analysis also suggests that this hominid left Africa one million years ago, in a previously unsuspected migration. Anthropologists generally believe that the exodus from Africa took place in waves, starting with Homo erectus leaving 1.9 million years ago, followed by the Neanderthals between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago, and then by the modern humans who exited about 50,000 years ago. With X-woman, as the Denisova specimen has been nicknamed, the divergence date of one million years is too young to have descended from Homo erectus and too old to have been a descendant of Homo heidelbergensis, another ancient human thought to have originated around 650,000 [BBC]. Paabo and his team are now working to extract nuclear DNA from the Denisova fossil to verify their suspicion that X-woman is indeed from another species.

Physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall, who was not involved in the research, called the Denisova hominid a “significant addition” to our understanding of human evolution. “We are the only hominin around today, so we tend to think that’s how it’s always been. But the evidence is accumulating that the human evolutionary tree is quite luxuriantly branching. There were multiple species that competed in the evolutionary arena, rather than a single lineage that was honed from primitiveness to perfection” [Time].

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BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! Good one! he, he, he....

[April Lexington]

Speaking of Bigfoot sightings...

[Netizen]

Here's another new hominid species.

[ConservativeMan55]

ping

[Quix]

—EX-woman,
—EX-American,
—EX-rational,
—EX-tolerable,
—EX-human,
. . .

[Quix]

Hmmmmmm . . . . crypto zoo-ology?

I keep some tabs on it . . . not a particularly favorite tangent.

There are some who contend that the craft and critters are responsible for bringing various strange critters of many types to roam around and cause confusion etc. from time to time.

Some claim such has been going on for eons.

God knows. I don’t.

I just know Scripture is 1,000% True. When the dust settles and this world and multiverse are wrapped up and tossed on the heap for the new ones . . . Scripture will have proven to have been 1,000% true in every detail.

Lots of things are not as they seem. Lots of purported illusions are realities. Lots of purported realities are illusions.

[SunkenCiv]

• DNA identifies new ancient human dubbed 'X-woman'

  03/24/2010 1:38:44 PM PDT · by smokingfrog · 35 replies · 1,165+ views

  BBC ^ | 3-24-10 | Paul Rincon

  Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of ancient human through analysis of DNA from a finger bone unearthed in a Siberian cave. The extinct "hominin" (human like creature) lived in Central Asia between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago. An international team has sequenced genetic material from the fossil showing that it is distinct from that of Neanderthals and modern humans. Details of the find, dubbed "X-woman", have been published in Nature journal. Ornaments were found in the same ground layer as the finger bone, including a bracelet. Professor Chris Stringer, human origins researcher at London's Natural History Museum, called...

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  03/24/2010 4:05:58 PM PDT · by edcoil · 33 replies · 808+ views

  reuters ^ | 3-24-10 | edcoil

  Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows a new and unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals, scientists reported on Wednesday.

• Gene research reveals fourth human species

  03/24/2010 7:40:24 PM PDT · by dangerdoc · 22 replies · 962+ views

  Financial Times ^ | 3/24/10 | Clive Cookson

  A fourth type of hominid, besides Neanderthals, modern humans and the tiny “hobbit”, was living as recently as 40,000 years ago, according to research published in the journal Nature. The discovery by Svante Pääbo and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is based on DNA sequences from a finger bone fragment discovered in a Siberian cave. EDITOR’S CHOICE Science briefing: Biofuel breakthrough - Feb-26 Public losing faith in science - Feb-22 Science briefing: Tracking cancer changes - Feb-19 Scientists discover the secret of ageing - Feb-15 Genome of balding Arctic ancestor decoded - Feb-10...

• Is the Mysterious Siberian “X-Woman” a New Hominid Species?

  03/25/2010 9:09:33 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 25 replies · 782+ views

  Discover Magazine ^ | March 25, 2010 | Smriti Rao

  In 2008, archeologists working at the Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains discovered a tiny piece of a finger bone, believed to be a pinky, buried with ornaments in the cave. Scientists extracted the mitochondrial DNA (genetic material from the mother’s side) from the ancient bone and checked to see if its genetic code matched with the other two known forms of early hominids–Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans. What they found was a real surprise. The team, led by geneticist Svaante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute, discovered that the mtDNA from the finger bone matched neither–suggesting there...

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