New' giant ape found in DR Congo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3730574.stm
Posted on 02/21/2016 5:06:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ever since geneticists sequenced the first Neanderthal genome in 2010, researchers have been reporting just how related humans are to their ancient, extinct cousins. Since then, there's been more research. And more. And more.
As it turns out, non-African modern humans have Neanderthals to thank for 1 to 4 percent of their DNA. The two species were thought to have interbred around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, based on the Neanderthal DNA found in anatomically modern human specimens and people living today.
But scientists had yet to find a signature of such mating interactions in Neanderthal DNA, until now.
"Instead of leaving fragments of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans, we find fragments of modern human DNA in the Neanderthal genome," says Adam Siepel, a computational biologist who heads the quantitative biology program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
Dr. Siepel, as part of an international team of geneticists, anthropologists, and computer scientists, found that a Neanderthal specimen from Siberia shared at least 1 percent of its DNA with modern humans. And that mating event happened some 100,000 years ago. Their results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
"Humans and Neandertals must have met considerably earlier than we thought previously," Siepel tells The Christian Science Monitor in an interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Damn Civ, hush or our Masters will know we are on to them ...
One episode had a shaky, grainy video (believe it or not) of a bigfoot swinging on a branch. Matt said that is a known juvenile behavior. I said hmmmm.
New' giant ape found in DR Congo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3730574.stm
“I hadn’t realized that comic book garbage was back. No scientist has made any of those conclusions (extraordinary eye size, slit iris, nocturnal, beast-like hair)”
I am unqualified to have an opinion on this, but I have a question.
I remember reading years ago that a large percentage of our DNA is identical to that of Chimps and Bonobos.
Is that relevant?
Good point, where did the snake-head gene come from?
This is about Neanderthals, not serpents?
We have a lot of DNA in common with everything with four limbs; the by and large, the critters closest to our bodys' structure have more and more in common. So, it's a matter of degree, and the degree isn't that much of a swing. We have a lot in common with mice, which is a good reason to continue to use animal testing for drugs and whatnot. If PETA doesn't like that, PETA should be forced to drink hemlock.
The Gigantopithecus could be the ancestor of the sasquatch, y'know, assuming anyone actually produces a type specimen by killing one. Until that happens, sasquatch doesn't exist, regardless of the thousands of prints, unknown numbers of photos and video, etc. Those History Channel shows on bigfoot are just awful, but I put them on in the background sometimes, for their entertainment value.
Dogs have masters, cats have staff.
That’s an interesting link, wonder if that’s the critter described in “The Periplus of Hanno”?
That says it all!
I can’t even go that far - background TV and all.
You and me baby, ain’t nothin’ but mammals
So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Hmm...”G. Blacki”...I wonder how the folks at Democratic Underground would interpret your chart?...lol
Does not sound like it from reading the story.
How’d you know that I forgot my sandwich?
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