Posted on 01/10/2025 4:37:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv
In a genome-wide association study of 6,169 Latin American individuals, an international team of scientists identified 32 gene regions (loci) that influenced facial features such as nose, lip, jaw, and brow shape, nine of which were entirely new discoveries while the others validated genes with prior limited evidence; one of these genes appears to have been inherited from Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neanderthals.
Dr. Kaustubh Adhikari, a scientist at University College London and the Open University, and colleagues... compared genetic information from the participants with characteristics of their face shape, quantified with 59 measurements (distances, angles and ratios between set points) from photos of their faces in profile.
They detected significant association of 32 traits with at least 1 (and up to 6) of 32 different genomic regions.
They also found that TBX15, a gene that contributes to lip thickness, was linked with genetic data found in Denisovans, providing a clue to the gene's origin.
(Excerpt) Read more at sci.news ...
Hers got that way in some other manner, either from the necks (of the bottles) or some late night flute work.
There's only one place on earth that H. sapiens is "native" to, and that's the Garden of Eden (or Africa's Great Rift Valley, depending on your belief system).
Unless you're still living where your ancestors came from, you're an immigrant. If any Hominids originated in the Americas, we have yet to discover their remains. Ergo all Hominids living in the New World are immigrants, Indians included.
Uh, I’m a native American — America’s very name is from a Renaissance-era Italian, and I was born here. Anyone born in the Americas is a native American.
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