Ancient Humans Had Sex With A Mystery Species

[FarCenter]

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.

Read more: http://www.livescience.com/41610-ancient-human-sex.html

Unfortunately, there is no video available.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. All this tells me is...........

We'll fuck anything!

[winter is coming]

2. LOL, I was having a Beavis and Butthead moment over "homo erectus".

He said "erectus" -- heh heh heh....

[cloudbase]

15. Check out Kinky Friedman's song by that name.

Also done by Asleep at the Wheel, and probably a few others.

[Initech]

68. Uh huh huh huh huh huh huh... erectus!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE...

[hobbit709]

3. And evidently have.

[Warpy]

5. Most humans would hump the crack of dawn

if they weren't afraid of getting laughed at.

[safeinOhio]

6. All that ended with the introduction of

internet porn.

[randome]

11. Oh, great! Now you mentioned the 'P' word!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

29. HahahahaHahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........

Yeah, I was just thinking the same!

[bemildred]

55. +1. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

63. "Any port in a storm"

....what?

[PumpkinAle]

4. Mystery Species

............. Republicans.

[11 Bravo]

7. That would explain the Palins, but where in the fuck did the Cheneys come from?

[rrneck]

27. Hells basement. nt

[Major Nikon]

37. From the darkest depths of...

[LuvNewcastle]

8. Looks like ancient humans had sex with anything that could stand up.

Who knew ancient humans were so slutty?

[markpkessinger]

9. This is why I always have to laugh when I hear people speak of 'racial purity'

What idiots like that don't seem to get is that the wider and more diverse the gene pool, the stronger our species becomes!

[happyfunball]

10. Well, if the internet has taught us anything...

It has taught us this:

There's nothing people wont have sex with.

[Fumesucker]

12. Lends a whole new meaning to the term Getting A Little Strange n/t

[X_Digger]

13. Erectus it is, then.

[Chiyo-chichi]

16. You beat me by 2 seconds.

[longship]

33. I saw the title and before I clicked through, I thought...

Here comes the alien guy.

Thank you. It's amazing the number of contexts he fits into.

Even this one...


Oopsie! Wrong photoshop. No matter. You get the idea. It's all aliens these days.

[Fawke Em]

70. Was looking to see if anyone would post this!

GMTA!

[Chiyo-chichi]

14. Someone else will post this if I don't.

So, let's get it out of the way.

[hunter]

21. A "Don't steal my bandwidth!" message???

'tis okay, the "I'm not saying it was aliens..." image, from another site, was posted just above yours.

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. We still do . . .

.
.
.

They are called your SO . . .





CC

[hobbit709]

18. Rishathra

[Fumesucker]

25. I thought the point of Rishathra was mutual infertility between diverse hominid species?

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I love this stuff.

Fundy heads exploding.

[loli phabay]

20. this is all i gotta say

http://memegenerator.net/instance/43541223?browsingOrder=New&browsingTimeSpan=Today

[KamaAina]

22. Santorum ws right! Man on Denisovian! Man on homo erectus!

[WolverineDG]

23. Cylons

Anyone watching the BSG finale could have told them that....

[rug]

24. Anything animate is at risk.

[Fumesucker]

26. You're being entirely too conservative

http://www.wafb.com/story/15354485/man-arrested-for-having-sex-with-a-pink-blow-up-pool-raft

Man accused of having sex with pool raft had also violated inflatable pumpkin

[loli phabay]

28. rofl, we really are a species full of unique and quirky characters.

[0rganism]

66. horny. mostly horny. did you forget horny?

it's one of our species' many distinctions.

[rug]

30. "Tobergta told police he was having sex with the raft because has a problem and needs help."

That's the first step. But it doesn't explain the pumpkin.

[Fumesucker]

31. ...

[rug]

32. Ah, there it is.

[Baclava]

34. I bet it was those damn Reptilians again, trying to put the moves on our would-be girlfriends

[Matariki]

35. I'm not saying it was aliens...

[Brigid]

45. X Digger beat you to it.

And beat me to it too,

[IDemo]

36. This thread is useless without cave paintings n/t

[Matariki]

48. DUzy!!!

[kentauros]

50. Don't you mean cave porn?

[Uncle Joe]

38. Perhaps this explains the rise of the Noah's Ark Story in the Old Testament?

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/Doctrines/giants.htm

Did Fallen Angels Have Sex with Earthly Women?

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 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. 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. 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. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose [Gen. 6:1–2].

This matter of "the sons of God" and "the daughters of men" is something that has caused no end of discussion. There are a great many good men who take the position that "the sons of God" were angels. I personally cannot accept that at all. Most of my teachers taught that the sons of God were angels, and I recognize that a great many of the present-day expositors take that position. However, I cannot accept that view, because, if these were good angels, they would not commit this sin, and evil angels could never be designated as "sons of God." Also, the offspring here were men; they were not monstrosities. I do not know why it is assumed by so many that the offspring were giants. We will look at this more closely when we come to verse 4.

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 [Gen. 6:3].

Thanks for the thread, FarCenter.

[jberryhill]

39. That's why I quit drinking

[Warren Stupidity]

40. This is a total goat fuck.

[Kaleva]

41. In the article, it said "erectus". Snicker! Snicker!

[Coyotl]

42. A Homo species of our lineage spread far and wide and recombined

but we cannot mate with other species, only our own. The only mystery is the unknown details yet to be discovered.

If it is one of our many ancestors, it is our species, by definition. Bad science writing.

[AverageJoe90]

43. I dunno about this, TBH.

I hate to seem like pissing on anyone's parades, but lots of theories come out about us humans and our lineage every year.....very few of them ever get proven, or even a second look for that matter. Maybe something will come out of it, maybe it won't.

[rustydog]

44. Rush Limbaugh?

[WillyT]

46. Modern Ones Do As Well...

[taught_me_patience]

47. deserves this...

[Spider Jerusalem]

49. This isn't really a surprise, somehow

and the low level of Neandertal contribution to the genome of non-African H. sapiens (for instance) indicates that such mating events may be fairly isolated things that need only have occurred a single time for any advantageous genes passed on through the offspring of that isolated mating to propagate to most of the rest of humanity...and to have done so relatively quickly; the most-recent common ancestor point for most of humanity (outside of geographically isolated populations in Oceania, North America, and sub-Saharan Africa, is probably as recent as 2000 years or so).

[FarCenter]

58. I think you may have meant 20,000 years ago.

Modern H. sapiens probably left Africa about 70K years ago. They reached Australia by about 50 K years ago, and Indian tribals, Andaman islanders, Papuans, etc. are remnants of that first expansion across South Asia.

However, most Eurasians are the result of expansions out of refuges after the last glacial maximum about 20K years ago. This includes North and South Americans who migrated from Siberia.

The initial expansions were more recently replaced by Neolithic farmers who began expanding about 10K years ago from the centers of wheat and rice agriculture to cover most of Europe and East Asia.

[Spider Jerusalem]

59. No, I meant about 2000 years ago (in the case of Eurasians, at least).

Although there's also the possibility of continued migration and gene flow across the Bering Strait. Note "geographically isolated populations such as sub-Saharan/Australian" excluded; the most recent common ancestor of all Europeans probably lived c. 1200 years ago, or less, for a point of comparison.

[MFM008]

51. and were still doing it

[rucky]

52. This happened to me once in college.

[Bohunk68]

53. As my step-father used to say,

" A stiff prick has no conscious." I do believe that is true.

[Berlum]

54. Bibble Lesson for Gawdless Socialists: Adam & Eve had two male children - Cain and Abel

Obviously -- for them to be fruitful and to multiply -- they had to get it on with someone from another planet. They were the only two people on the planet, other than their parents. Thus, they must have gotten it on with Aliens. Case solved. There you have it....

[hobbit709]

56. Actually 3; Cain, Abel, and Seth

So either Adam and Eve had daughters and it was incest from the get go or there were other people around.
And that's not even counting the cloning aspect of Eve.

[Ghost in the Machine]

62. Other people... the bible says Adam & Eve were the *FIRST*, not the *ONLY*... it also says that

after Cain was cast out of the Garden of Eden, god put a mark upon his body so that the others that he came across would know him for who he was and wouldn't harm/kill him.

This is the exact issue which caused me to leave church when I was 16, turning me agnostic, then full blown atheist. I asked the preacher a very simple question, to which the answer is in my title to this post, at least in my mind....

What was the question I asked?? :" The bible says that after Cain was cast out of the Garden of Eden, god put a mark upon his body so that the others that he came across would know him for who he was and wouldn't harm/kill him, right? *Where* did these other people come from?" All the preacher had to say was "the bible says Adam & Eve were the *FIRST*, not the *ONLY*". Instead, he just stood there looking at me dumbfoundedly, as if I was speaking a foreign language or something. How could a man who had been a preacher for 30+ years, had gone to bible college, the seminary, etc., not come up with such a simple answer for a 16 year old kid??

I left that day, and never went back though, due to my thirst for knowledge, I kept reading the bible, studying other religions from satanism to wicca, odinism, paganism and buddhism. I came to the conclusion that it was all a load of BS, and I had the "free will" to live my life knowing right from wrong, and mostly trying to help out those less fortunate than myself... but without expecting any kind of reward at the end, like living in some imaginary mansion in the sky, or being tortured for beyond eternity for some of the other things I've done in my lifetime.

Peace,

Ghost

[Saphire]

71. +1

[Brigid]

61. The SNL "wild and crazy guys!"

[mithnanthy]

57. could it be....(just for shits and giggles)...

That homo sapiens are the product of aliens mating with Chimpanzees, thus, creating man? Chimpanzees continued to mate with their own species and Neanderthals mated with each other to continue their own line. The theory would be, that aliens arrived on Earth, mated with everything that moved (sounds like man) and yet only the Chimpanzee breeding was a success and Man was born....(I thought of this idea, when I learned about DNA back in 1964, being just a crazy kid who had viewed lots of fantasy and outer space movies). My Theory, back then was called "The Monkey-Alien Theory" (even tho I learned the Chimps were closer to our DNA). This Theory can be great topic of conversation at any gathering!

[Skraxx]

60. Elves, Dwarves and ....Orcs?

[spanone]

64. republicans?

[0rganism]

65. what mystery? Humans have sex with EVERYTHING

we're humans, apparently it's what we do.

[zappaman]

67. I watched a documentary about mermaids that helped explain this.

Very interesting and has some scientific evidence about the existence of mermaids that I did not know about!
http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/mermaids/videos/camera-captures-mermaid-on-diving-vessel.htm

[Initech]

69. He said "erectus"!