Wonder how I'd explain this if I were a MORmON missionary....
50,000 years ago, West Africans were interbreeding with an unknown "Ghost" species of humans while Europeans were mating with Neanderthals in Europe and Australian Aborigionies and Melenesians were mating with another archaic species of Humans, Denisovans.


https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805237120/ghost-dna-in-west-africans-complicates-story-of-human-origins?utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3847zz3ZlKt7r3F92nKiZ-LDQNl8z-LRW6CJNbXNPChy0SFJeanBmp1ME

West AFricans tested have 2-19% of their DNA came from this 'ghost species' of extinct humans, which is huge, considering we're 98% genetically identical to Chimpanzees and Bonobos. And they're more closely related to us than they are to Gorillas or any other ape species.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-ghost/ghost-ancestors-african-dna-study-detects-mysterious-human-species-idUSKBN2072X9



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Thank you, SC!!

Very muchly appreciated by me.

:)

"When the lights came down, everybody was sleeping with everyone else."

anybody Wrote:
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> "When the lights came down, everybody was sleeping
> with everyone else."

Oh, so it's like that Prof. Gates? I always thought you were more snooty.

"Captain, you know what this means!?"

"No, Spock, I don't..."

"Captain, ...Jim... this changes everything."

"Spock, then stop playing the fool kiss me!"

The pious ones were referred to as "The Holy Ghosts".

Obviously the survivors from the Battlestar Galactica fleet.

So say we all.

Interesting article, if people can believe in Neanderthals I guess we can believe in giants as well? And fairies, gnomes and trolls.

macaRomney Wrote:
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> Interesting article, if people can believe in
> Neanderthals I guess we can believe in giants as
> well? And fairies, gnomes and trolls.

There's nothing to believe.
We have their skulls and when we took DNA from them we got their DNA. DNA doesn't lie. We don't have skulls or DNA from giants, fairies, gnomes or trolls.
Unless we count macaRomney as a Troll.

macaRomney Wrote:
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> Interesting article, if people can believe in
> Neanderthals I guess we can believe in giants as
> well?

The square - cube law pretty effectively rules out giants.

They were simply early humans. Do your research. There's plenty of information out there.

macaRomney Wrote:
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> Interesting article, if people can believe in
> Neanderthals I guess we can believe in giants as
> well? And fairies, gnomes and trolls.

Unicorns are mentioned 9 times in the Bible, cats not at all.

I’ll fight all nine of your biblical unicorns at one time, with one hand tied behind my back, cuz that’s how Jacked-up I am on Macho-in-the-Box coffee right now!

Lemme at’em!!

OneWayJay Wrote:
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> macaRomney Wrote:
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> > Interesting article, if people can believe in
> > Neanderthals I guess we can believe in giants
> as
> > well? And fairies, gnomes and trolls.
>
> Unicorns are mentioned 9 times in the Bible, cats
> not at all.

Thanks to bad translation!

Wildcats may be referred to in Isaiah 34:14, but this is not obvious from the English. Lions are referred to repeatedly. Jerusalem may even mean place of the lion originally.

"Unicorns" and "satyrs" in the Bible are mistranslations.

>>“We estimate interbreeding occurred approximately 43,000 years ago, with large intervals of uncertainty,”

So this event occurred in Africa after the exodus of Homo sapiens (~50,000 years ago) that gave rise to the people whose survivors populated the rest of the planet?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070509161829.htm

>>Geneticist Dr Peter Forster... "For the first time, this evidence gives us a genetic link showing that the Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean populations are descended directly from the same specific group of people who emerged from the African migration.”

One reason we know humanity originated in Africa is the genetic variability is greatest there. This "ghost DNA" is simply a "subset" of that variability.

And seriously? (/remedial English teacher voice on)

>>There's nothing to believe.
>>We have their skulls and when we took DNA from them we got their DNA.

We don't have the skulls of this "ghost population." What we have are DNA sequences extant in modern populations; that's all. Those populations are found in West Africa, and the figure of 19% is a tiny portion of the 2%, not related to the overall larger figure of the comparison of human versus chimp DNA.

'Nuff said...

/insert old line about bullchip filter

As noted: “We estimate interbreeding occurred approximately 43,000 years ago, with large intervals of uncertainty,”

Yet...

"Sankararaman said this extinct species seems to have diverged roughly 650,000 years ago from the evolutionary line that led to Homo sapiens"

So this species was extant for 600,000 years? Or at least 300,000 if it interbred with modern humans...

We are all the same race.
We all speak the same language.
There is no difference between us.
We are all equal.
In intelligence and physical abilities.
There is only one race, the human race.
Race doesn't exist.
It's racist to acknowledge difference.
We are all African.
etc etc.

Science has proven all of the above is true. :D

Bureau of Medicine Wrote:
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> There is no difference between us.
> We are all equal.

> Science has proven all of the above is true. :D

I think Science says that variation among humans is fairly high for a species.

And equality isn't something Science says anything about.