At the University of Washington, population geneticists Joshua Akey and Benjamin Vernot go over human evolutionary models. They are currently studying the influence of Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA on mode. Credit: Clare McLean
Posted on 03/20/2016 2:51:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Many recent studies have tried to understand when and where archaic hominins and our modern ancestors co-existed and interbred. Most of this research has been intent on cataloging Neanderthal gene sequences remaining in the genomes people of European or Asian descent.
According to Vernot, "Different populations of people have slightly different levels of Neanderthal ancestry, which likely means that humans repeatedly ran into Neanderthals as they spread across Europe."
Where the ancestors of modern humans might have had physical contact with Denisovans is debatable. The best guess, Akey said, is that Denisovans may have had a broad geographic range that extended into East Asia. Early humans with both Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry could have traveled along South East Asia. Eventually, some of their descendants arrived on the islands north of Australia
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At the University of Washington, population geneticists Joshua Akey and Benjamin Vernot go over human evolutionary models. They are currently studying the influence of Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA on mode. Credit: Clare McLean
If the pic is missiing, here it is:
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/111285.php
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The article said something about the retaining of the ancient DNA in the people of that AO might have been because it gave some protection from disease or some such.
Imo, it was more likely that there was never the intellectual development pressure necessary to deselect the traits given by that DNA.
We’re talking about a people who, when exposed to tech far advanced from their own developed cargo cults in response. The cultures there were also, for the most part, completely unable to raise themselves up out of the stone age without interference from outsiders.
“This study team also developed new, rigorous methods for labeling which archaic DNA sequences were Neanderthal, Denisovan, or of uncertain origin.
“The classification is tricky and not a trivial exercise,” Akey said, “Mislabeling could lead to erroneous conclusions.”
Translation - Here comes Eugenics.
So this story is about some guy named Denis who went to Tahiti and didn’t practice safe sex.
Other than being the first Siberian on a sex holiday, why is this important to me?
Yeah, as if you’ve never spent time doing sex tourism!!!
The article said something about the retaining of the ancient DNA in the people of that AO might have been because it gave some protection from disease or some such.IOW, whomever said it is talking out they ass. They're unreconstructed Darwinist drones. Half the DNA of each parent is lost to the child; what makes it through or doesn't is entirely by chance. That's it. No "selection pressure" (a.k.a. Lamarckism), no selective advantage, no natural selection, just what does and doesn't get passed down. Period.
Visiting Boys Town in Nuevo Laredo is NOT sex tourism. It is engaging in free trade under NAFTA.
Researchers find ancient DNA preserved in modern-day humans
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/bu-rfa031716.php
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