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Researchers use genome sequences to peer into early human history
Cornell Chronicle ^ | September 19, 2011 | Krishna Ramanujan

Posted on 09/21/2011 1:18:05 PM PDT by decimon

Cornell researchers have developed new statistical methods based on the complete genome sequences of people alive today to shed light on events at the dawn of human history.

They applied their methods to the genomes of individuals of East Asian, European, and western and southern African descent. They analyzed only six genomes, but made use of the fact that these genomes contain traces of genetic material from thousands of human ancestors, which have been assembled into new combinations over the millennia by genetic recombination.

The main finding of the study, published Sept. 18 in Nature Genetics, is that the San, an indigenous group of hunter gatherers from southern Africa, diverged from other human populations earlier than previously thought -- about 130,000 years ago. In comparison, the ancestors of modern Eurasian populations migrated from Africa only about 50,000 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.cornell.edu ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble

1 posted on 09/21/2011 1:18:07 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Sans of time ping.


2 posted on 09/21/2011 1:19:33 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

...and they will still not be able to find ANYTHING at all supporting being born gay, but hey, the man-made global warming lie had long legs....why not being born gay!


3 posted on 09/21/2011 1:20:42 PM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: decimon

Where the Sans the ancestors of the Sans Serif?


4 posted on 09/21/2011 1:27:59 PM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: blam

Ping.


5 posted on 09/21/2011 1:34:59 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: decimon

Shakespear’s 7 stages of man from As You Like It:

“Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”


6 posted on 09/21/2011 1:42:04 PM PDT by bgill (There, happy now?)
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To: Brookhaven
Where the Sans the ancestors of the Sans Serif?

The Sans shot the serif. But not the calligraphy.

7 posted on 09/21/2011 1:42:51 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
Wow...I'm inspired. I think we should live like them until the temperature drops to whatever Gore says is normal. We can save the world.

We spend much to much on this "stuff". It's guessing and guessing is not science.

8 posted on 09/21/2011 1:47:37 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: decimon
Is this the same as saying that these people have not intermarried outside their group in 130,000 years?

diverged from other human populations earlier than previously thought -- about 130,000 years ago.

9 posted on 09/21/2011 2:04:03 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

Good point. Yes, you wonder.


10 posted on 09/21/2011 2:32:44 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: Brookhaven

The San definitely diverged from other humans before the invention of the Coke bottle, otherwise they wouldn’t have been mystified by one of them falling out of the sky.


11 posted on 09/21/2011 3:08:26 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: decimon

You know that the biggest effort on all this genome voyeurism has been to find the link between monkeys and man. I’ll bet there are 1,000 scientists feverishly working to find the link. Wouldn’t they have found it by now? Shouldn’t it be easy?


12 posted on 09/21/2011 4:45:32 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: decimon; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks decimon. This looks familiar, but I'm about to fall asleep and don't feel like checking.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


13 posted on 09/21/2011 8:32:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: blueunicorn6

“...the biggest effort on all this genome voyeurism has been to find the link between monkeys and man”

All they need to do is make a Game and Xbox do the rest.


14 posted on 09/21/2011 9:03:37 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: DuncanWaring
I posted this article in 2003 but it was pulled by JimRob for copyright complaint:

African Click Language 'Holds Key To Origins Of Earliest Human Speech'

Also, the Bushmen are physically different than other people.

The 'Hottentot Venus'

15 posted on 09/21/2011 9:19:38 PM PDT by blam
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To: ICE-FLYER

What? Or, maybe why?


16 posted on 09/22/2011 4:54:11 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: blam
Also, the Bushmen are physically different than other people.
It's better than being called "Bushbot". Oh wait, who are you talking about? ;')


17 posted on 09/24/2011 6:14:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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