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skywizard
28th December 2013, 16:16
One that disappeared.

http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/059/863/i02/neanderthal-girl-131202.jpeg?1386001695
Baby... What's that smell? :hilarious:
A girl goes nose-to-nose with a Neanderthal statue in Germany. Ancient DNA research
is increasingly revealing the genetic links between modern humans and our extinct
ancestors, including Neanderthals and the mysterious Denisovans.

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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.


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peace...
skywizard

Spiral
28th December 2013, 16:47
I'll repost my comment that the picture they chose is creepy & highly inappropriate too then ;)