Sat Jul 28, 2012, 09:55 AM
I'm not saying it's 'mystery' humans but it's 'mystery' humans who mated with us
DNA evidence for early 'mystery' humans SEATTLE, July 26 (UPI) -- Early humans in Africa mated with a mystery species of human that may have been related to Neanderthals that later inhabited Europe, genetic studies show. No fossil evidence of the previously unknown humans exists, researchers said, but they left their mark in bits of foreign DNA in modern-day African populations. The existence of that genetic material in modern human populations is proof of interbreeding between the two species, probably 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, they said. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/07/26/DNA-evidence-for-early-mystery-humans/UPI-54951343333214/#ixzz21vOJ5IEL
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 I'm not saying it's 'mystery' humans but it's 'mystery' humans who mated with us (Original post) |
Ichingcarpenter | Jul 2012 | OP |
| rfranklin | Jul 2012 | #1 | |
| xchrom | Jul 2012 | #2 | |
| mzteris | Jul 2012 | #3 | |
| jpbollma | Jul 2012 | #4 | |
| mzteris | Jul 2012 | #5 | |
| siligut | Jul 2012 | #7 | |
| Ichingcarpenter | Jul 2012 | #6 | |
| Sirveri | Jul 2012 | #8 | |
| frogmarch | Jul 2012 | #9 |
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Sat Jul 28, 2012, 10:14 AM
2. Humans sleep around. A lot. Nt
Response to mzteris (Reply #3)
Sat Jul 28, 2012, 01:48 PM
6. Annunaki/ Archons are the names of who supposed to have tried the DNA injection.
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 06:08 PM
8. So Battlestar Galactica was RIGHT!
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 01:29 PM
frogmarch (11,452 posts)
9. Interesting!
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Thanks for your post.
Here’s a link to longer article about it. The title ("Mystery Human Ancestor Found in African Genes"  is somewhat misleading, but I think the article itself is quite good.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/mystery-human-ancestor-found-in-african-genes/30223 Another key finding is that most of the new variants are not genes —stretches of DNA that code for proteins that run a cell’s machinery—but regulatory regions that sit next to genes, turning them on or off, or increasing their protein production rate the way a radio volume knob increases sound. “Just because a stretch of DNA doesn’t have any genes doesn’t mean it can’t be functionally important,” noted Joseph Lachance, a postdoctoral researcher at Pennsylvania who is first author on the paper. To the contrary, he said, because those regions persisted and most genes didn’t, it shows that things like on-off switches are important evolutionary adaptations.
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