Posted on 09/08/2011 5:17:24 PM PDT by Renfield
Our ancestors bred with other species in the Homo genus, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. The authors say that up to 2% of the genomes of some modern African populations may originally come from a closely related species.
Palaeontologists have long wondered whether modern humans came from a single, genetically isolated population of hominins or whether we are a genetic mix of various hominin species.
Last year, an analysis comparing the Neanderthal genome sequence to that of modern H. sapiens showed that some interbreeding did take place between the two species in Europe some time between 80 and 30,000 years ago and that, to a certain extent, Neanderthals 'live on' in the genes of modern humans2.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Perhaps one of you quasi-scientists could take a few moments and explain how it is in your world that out of millions of species over so long only man developed to our level?
If, our evolution was truly from animal state to the present human form...why have no other species shown similar development in intelligence, etc.? That has been puzzling me for some time now.
I believe that life evolves to some extent...but have never been convinced that present man evolved from animal primates...I know technically we are animal...but I think most will know what I mean.
The beauty herself. Let's call her Butterface....
Sometimes, models are created to support a theory.
Hey, some of us like it ruff!
LOL
I knew you’d come through with a belly laugh.
Any port in a storm, man
No doubt about it. I've seen the proof.
Aren’t various homos still doing this ? Isn’t it anal sex that produces Democrats ?
Always get a laugh out of x wives names.....very creative...
I think the “Navy” states it thusly: “Any port in a storm!”
Dude, that’s him, that’s my last boss!
Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
Should we all even being discussing this? I mean since we’re all apparently “anti-science” and all. lol
But don’t question the theory, er science. You’ll be called a knuckle dragging throwback. And that’s from the people who made their life’s work STUDYING knuckle dragging throwbacks.
80 as in 80 thousand to 30 thousand years ago. Meanwhile here is an interesting link on a new humanoid. May be a link between Lucy and later protohuman species. SC maybe worth a separate post??
Yes, and the inbreds become progressives...just saying.
...and a muttly crew we are, too.
Ich bin ein Muttler!
The two guys in the Comment you refer to might be members of two notorious families that were studied around the 1930s in the Appalacian Mts. This was a study of feeblemindedness cause by incest and inbreeding. The families were called the Jukes and the Kalikacks (sp?) if I remember correctly. Not to be confused with the Hatfields and the McCoys. My mother used to refer to them when we kids did something really stupid.
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