Posted on 08/07/2020 11:24:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
[Ghost] DNA from an unknown ancient ancestor of humans that once bred with Denisovans still exists among the genomes of people today, a study has revealed.
The different branches of the human family tree have interbred and swapped genes -- a processes known as 'introgression' -- on numerous occasions...
Experts from the US found that some three per cent of the Neanderthal genome came from interbreeding with another ancient human group 300,000 years ago...
The researchers used the algorithm to look at genomes from two Neanderthals, a Denisovan and two African humans.
Alongside finding that a small proportion of the Neanderthal genome came from ancient humans, the team also determined that one per cent of the Denisovan genome appears to have come from an unknown and more distant species.
Moreover, up to 15 per cent of this 'super-archaic' genetic material has likely been passed down into modern humans who are alive today, the researchers said.
While it is not clear exactly from which species these fragments of DNA originated, the team suspect that they may have come from Homo Erectus...
Bone and ivory beads found in the Denisova Cave were discovered in the same sediment layers as the Denisovan fossils, leading to suggestions they had sophisticated tools and jewellery...
DNA from molar teeth belonging to two other individuals, one adult male and one young female, showed they died in the cave at least 65,000 years earlier.
Other tests have suggested the tooth of the young female could be as old as 170,000 years.
A third molar is thought to have belonged to an adult male who died around 7,500 years before the girl whose pinky was discovered.
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Or possibly, “You’re the reason our kids are ugly”.
Peach
“Denisovans” Residents of the town/province of Denisova?
Money is on Homo Heidelbergensis
“Money is on Homo Heidelbergensis”
Did they have dueling scars?
reptilians. What about the reptilians?
They say that all people have some Neanderthal DNA unless their ancestry is 100% Sub-Saharan African. I have a distant match on 23andMe whose ancestry is mostly Sub-Saharan African but about 18% European. According to 23andMe, he has more Neanderthal traits than 1% of their customers. That must be from his European ancestry.
Does Dennis Kucinich have any Denisovan DNA?
Probably not, but then they were bigger and more powerful than the biggest and most powerful WWE star.
Makes me dizzy, how much things have changed since I was in school.
Actually they found that they have some too. Which make sense. People moved in and out of Africa the way they moved in and out of every other place.
“I had my DNA done by National Geographic and 23 and Me both said that I had a certain percentage of Denisovan as part of my DNA”
Were you represented on the 2020 census?
Agreed, but hat was in the 60s ... Moreover if things have changed fast since then, they are changing even faster now. DNA, mtDNA and so on have been the principles behind the changes in human origin.
mtDNA now puts anatomically correct humans (us) back to 300,000 years. What were we doing all that time? Stop and realize that our modern civilization and all its achievements would be literally dust, if stopped now, in a mere 10,000 years.
Also many of the Old Guard have passed away and their iron-clad pet theories have gone with them. Same is true for Egyptology which is currently in total chaos.
Still consensus thinking, and institutionalized theories formulated in the 19th century is holding back an even faster pace
... might explain Texas Rep Al Green from Houston ...
Does Dennis Kucinich have any Denisovan DNA?
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No Denisovans were big like WWE wrestlers. They preferred cold high altitude climates (mountain tops like part of the Caucuses and Himalayas). Kucinich is, comparatively, a runt who lives at a low altitude in a warm climate.
Denisovan hybrids entered N America at some point, causing some northern tribes to have a high percent of Denisovan DNA (6% I think).
“two Neanderthals, a Denisovan and two African humans go into a bar...”
.... and out popped Obama!
LOL
“...300,000 years. What were we doing all that time?”
It seems unlikely that we will ever know.
Unlikely now, but 20 years ago no one thought that haplogroups or mtDNA would tell so much about our past.
Then, there are a huge number of anomalies which are dismissed out of hand because they don’t fit the preconceived meme of anthropologists, archeologists and others in the scientific disciplines. So there is hope that things will clear up as long as we don’t regress into idiots
I like that one best, thanks. :-)
What part of the world did your recent ancestors come from? My late husband had mostly Scotish ancestry, and I think he more than 4% Neanderthal.
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