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Ancient Humans Had Sex With A Mystery Species (Not Neanderthals Or Denisovans)
BI/Live Science ^ | 12-4-2013 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 12/05/2013 6:33:43 AM PST by blam

Ancient Humans Had Sex With A Mystery Species

Stephanie Pappas
Live Science
Dec. 4, 2013, 3:33 PM

A new, improved sequencing of ancient human relative genomes reveals that Homo sapiens didn't only have sex with Neanderthals and a little-understood line of humans called Denisovans. A fourth, mystery lineage of humans was in the mix, too.

As reported by the news arm of the journal Nature, new genetic evidence suggests that several hominids — human relatives closer than humans' current living cousin, the chimpanzee — interbred more than 30,000 years ago. This group of kissing cousins included an unknown human ancestor not yet revealed by the ancient DNA record.

"It's implied it could be something like Homo erectus or similar," said Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogenomics researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, who was not involved in the research, but who was present at a talk on the findings given by lead author David Reich of Harvard Medical School at a meeting on ancient DNA sponsored by the Royal Society in London on Nov. 18. Homo erectus is an extinct species of human that originated in Africa and spread into Asia. [See Images of Our Closest Human Ancestor]

Ancient human lineages

Neanderthals are an extinct group of humans who lived between about 30,000 and 130,000 years ago. Despite their reputation as bone-headed dummies, Neanderthals were likely as advanced as modern humans in areas such as tool-making, though they were probably less socially adept.

Denisovans are a far more mysterious group. These early humans lived in Siberia and probably split off from the branch of the human family tree that would eventually give rise to Neanderthals about 300,000 years ago. Little is known about how Denisovans lived and what they looked like.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; denisovans; dmanisi; fauxiantrolls; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; homoerectus; idiotsonfr; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; origin; origins
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To: MrB

I’m with you there!


81 posted on 12/05/2013 9:08:13 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6

Nobody ever asks the angels what they are doing. Maybe they aren’t really dancing, but doing chi gong exercises.


82 posted on 12/05/2013 9:10:35 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: MrB

Well, Heaven’s my home, but I ain’t homesick.

Now, if we are talking about the Second Coming, I have a different take on the matter.

:)


83 posted on 12/05/2013 9:13:44 AM PST by chesley
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To: blam

when I was single, so did I.


84 posted on 12/05/2013 9:15:44 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: blam

Don’t tell me they are finally going to show me the Monkey men. :-))


85 posted on 12/05/2013 9:18:10 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Like the face of God perhaps, Moses was only allowed to see where it has been, or the hinder parts of God, but never where it was facing...the angels have always moved onto another pin when we get around to examining the previous pin.

We know where an angel or even the spirit of God has truly been because the people involved were left in the joyous expectancy of hope, were spiritually and physically refreshed, or in the case of Mary and Elizabeth...soon to be pregnant with the two most important people of History!


86 posted on 12/05/2013 9:54:50 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: thackney

A problem with that interpretation is that it ignores that the same word (nephilim) used to describe the offspring of the union, which is usually translated as giants, is also used in Numbers 13 to describe the giants who inhabited Canaan when the Israelites came to take possession of it. Those later giants are unmistakeably described as actual giants in subsequent verses, which implies that the first set, in Genesis were also indeed giants, and not simply a mating with Cain’s family.


87 posted on 12/05/2013 10:00:32 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: blam

Genesis 6
King James Version (KJV)

1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.


88 posted on 12/05/2013 10:12:33 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: thackney

Thank you for the reference... Gen: 6. I think I have obtained my ticket on the “Ark.” In His time, while working out my Faith building the Ark according to God’s plan. Heb 11:6-7 and Matthew 24 all - (esp. verse 13)


89 posted on 12/05/2013 10:23:26 AM PST by rusureitflies?
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To: blam

Peruvian skulls:
https://www.google.com/search?q=peruvian+skulls&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=J8egUvu1CIzgoATHhIDYBA&ved=0CD4QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=674


90 posted on 12/05/2013 10:35:38 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: blam

Even hundreds of thousands of years ago, Laz hit that.....


91 posted on 12/05/2013 10:38:49 AM PST by AnAmericanInEngland
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To: nonsporting

“Gods makes it clear in Genesis that the kinds reproduce after their own kind. (Genesis 1:21,24,25).”

The verses state they were created after their kind, not that they can’t reproduce with anything outside their kind. Besides, we have no clue what method might have been used to produce any potential hybrid offspring. For all we know, it may not have been physical reproduction at all.

“Angels do not marry and do not reproduce.”

Angels in heaven don’t marry, sure, but there is no statement as to whether or not they can reproduce, or to whether their not marrying is a strict limitation, or an act of obedience to some law. If it is simply an act of obedience, and the angels in question were fallen, then they may have chosen to disobey.

“”Sons of God” are men who believe on The Lord (see John 1:12). The “daughters of men” are the unsaved females of the unbelieving tribes/groups.”

So, do you believe that just breeding with unbeliever females produces giants? I would say the fact that the offspring are described in unnatural terms suggests an unnatural union produced them.


92 posted on 12/05/2013 10:40:45 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: MrB

“AFAIK, angels/demons are spirits with no bodies and therefore no DNA.
Demons inhabit human bodies, but any mating that occurred would simply pass on the DNA of the inhabited body, no?”

There’s really no way of knowing, from the text, if the offspring was produced through physical copulation, or some other means. After all, we know that stuff like genetic engineering and artificial insemination are possible now, so there is no reason to assume that angels, with much greater knowledge of the workings of the universe, would not have known about them or been able to use them.


93 posted on 12/05/2013 10:50:10 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: DickBrannigan; Dick Vomer; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

According to IMDb the actor who played Harry Mudd “was a close friend of George Takei”.

Oh my.


94 posted on 12/05/2013 1:33:07 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: blam
There was probably a lot of a lot of evolving, devolving, evolving again, stops and starts before homo sapiens sapiens developed.

Ain't sure some walking around today got that final little evolutionary boost :)

95 posted on 12/05/2013 2:01:57 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: blam; gleeaikin; Theoria; SunkenCiv; no-to-illegals; All; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ..

Thanks blam. Related recent topic: At 400,000 Years, Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries.

96 posted on 12/05/2013 2:56:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: GOPsterinMA

the annunaki?


97 posted on 12/05/2013 3:01:49 PM PST by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: mbarker12474

She’s so hot.


98 posted on 12/05/2013 3:03:05 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MrB
I’ve long suspected “aliens” were actually demonic manifestations.

I’ve long suspected humans were actually demonic manifestations.

99 posted on 12/05/2013 3:03:07 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Perdogg

ha1 I was just going to type those very words.


100 posted on 12/05/2013 3:04:10 PM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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