Human ancestors interbred with related species

Naturenews ^ | 09-05-2011 | Matt Kaplan

[Wpin]

Perhaps one of you quasi-scientists could take a few moments and explain how it is in your world that out of millions of species over so long only man developed to our level?

If, our evolution was truly from animal state to the present human form...why have no other species shown similar development in intelligence, etc.? That has been puzzling me for some time now.

I believe that life evolves to some extent...but have never been convinced that present man evolved from animal primates...I know technically we are animal...but I think most will know what I mean.

[Alas Babylon!]

This thread is NOTHING without pictures....

The beauty herself. Let's call her Butterface....

[fso301]

"The ability to discern complex models of demographic history with such a small data set, when many of the basic features of African genomes and history remain unknown, concerns me."

Sometimes, models are created to support a theory.

[Eaker]

Hey, some of us like it ruff!

[smokingfrog]

LOL

I knew you’d come through with a belly laugh.

[Outrance]

Any port in a storm, man

[smokingfrog]

(Because there is “foreign”, non-homo sapiens material in the mtDNA now.)

No doubt about it. I've seen the proof.

[white17x]

Aren’t various homos still doing this ? Isn’t it anal sex that produces Democrats ?

[goat granny]

Always get a laugh out of x wives names.....very creative...

[Tucker39]

I think the “Navy” states it thusly: “Any port in a storm!”

[Oratam]

[Revolting cat!]

Dude, that’s him, that’s my last boss!

[MNnice]

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

Should we all even being discussing this? I mean since we’re all apparently “anti-science” and all. lol

[COBOL2Java]

Our ancestors bred with other species in the Homo genus...

"You see??? Pwoof!"

[a fool in paradise]

But don’t question the theory, er science. You’ll be called a knuckle dragging throwback. And that’s from the people who made their life’s work STUDYING knuckle dragging throwbacks.

[gleeaikin]

80 as in 80 thousand to 30 thousand years ago. Meanwhile here is an interesting link on a new humanoid. May be a link between Lucy and later protohuman species. SC maybe worth a separate post??

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/australopithecus-sediba-bones_n_954212.html?1315507025&ncid=webmail24

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Yes, and the inbreds become progressives...just saying.

[Antoninus]

If we could inter-breed with them, then they were not a different species, per the definition of species. They were just other races of Man.

Good point.

[ApplegateRanch]

You mean to say that we are all mutts?

...and a muttly crew we are, too.

Ich bin ein Muttler!

[gleeaikin]

The two guys in the Comment you refer to might be members of two notorious families that were studied around the 1930s in the Appalacian Mts. This was a study of feeblemindedness cause by incest and inbreeding. The families were called the Jukes and the Kalikacks (sp?) if I remember correctly. Not to be confused with the Hatfields and the McCoys. My mother used to refer to them when we kids did something really stupid.