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Posted on 05/28/2026 2:11:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Since humans developed the ability to study DNA extracted from fossils, we have uncovered a mystery that until now had no answer. In the DNA of some human species, including our own, Homo sapiens, there were "super-archaic" markers, vestiges of older, unknown species with which we had interbred and produced offspring. Unable to determine who these genomic intruders were, some scientists called them ghost populations...
Researchers in China have analysed proteins from the tooth enamel of six fossils dating back around 400,000 years -- five men and one woman -- found at sites across much of the country from north to south. They were able to recover two proteins, and one of them -- the M273V variant of the enamel protein ameloblastin -- is key. The results show that this protein is present in all the fossils analyzed, which belonged to our ancestor Homo erectus. The same compound had previously been identified in the teeth of another human group, the Denisovans -- close relatives of Neanderthals, themselves the species most closely related to our own.
The finding implies that, at some point around 400,000 years ago, Homo erectus, which originated in Africa, and the Denisovans, a human population adapted to Eurasia, encountered one another, had sex, and produced fertile offspring. It is the oldest known episode of interbreeding between human groups, and the first to feature Homo erectus, a species that until recently had been largely overlooked. The results were published on Wednesday in Nature.
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Reconstruction of a 'homo erectus' based on fossils from different locations, in an image from the Natural History Museum.Natural History Museum
And here I was, expecting to read of fossilized panties undergoing DNA testing!
Instead, it's about tooth enamel!
Whew! That was a close one!
But tooth enamel? What does that tell us about the depraved sex practices of our ancient ancestors?
Regards,
Calls to mind that old song, “Tattooed Love Boys”.
Love at first sight?
They all interbred with viable offspring. They are all one species. Denisovans, Neanderthals, Homo Erecti did not go extinct. They fused with Homo Sapiens. They are among us/in us still. The percentages of DNA are low for the other varieties because at any given time there were far more Homo Sapiens than there were the others.
It’s unlikely that Homo Sapiens existed at all at the time, more likely, given the DNA evidence, that Homo Sapiens resulted from a lot of such trysts.
I thought Vin Diesel was the paleolithic version of Vin Diesel...
[singing] what’s love got to do, got to do, with it...
Ugh...I’m thinking “not even at closing time...”
When HS spread into Europe and probably also with Asia, the population of Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia were very sparse. The incoming Moderns were many times their number so the genes contributed by the older groups to Man were a correspondingly tiny percentage.
I thought Vin Diesel was the paleolithic version of Vin Diesel...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You are undoubtedly right. We can prove it by extracting a tooth !
That’s just an out-of-Africa myth.
since it’s about teeth... wouldn’t it be “love at first bite”?
“Homo erectus”
There’s gotta be a joke or two in there....
SC, this really does sound like so much hooie.
Fake Science.
Thinly-supported theories about supposed ancestors referred to as if they are established fact, reliable history.
There’s a lot of PhD degrees on the line if they start admitting the fictions they’ve been trading in.
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