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Showing Original Post only (View all)Some Pacific Islanders Have DNA Not Linked To Any Known Human Ancestor [View all]
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/pacific-islanders-ancestor?utm_campaign=pdsoban&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialMost everyone knows that the islands of the South Pacific are some of the most remote and unique places on Earth, but a new study reveals just how unique they really are.
According to a report from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, researchers have found traces of a previously unknown extinct hominid species in the DNA of the Melanesians, a group living in an area northeast of Australia that encompasses Papua New Guinea and the surrounding islands.
A computer analysis suggests that the unidentified ancestral hominid species found in Melanesian DNA is unlikely to be either Neanderthal or Denisovan, the two known predecessors of humankind to this point.
Archaeologists have found many Neanderthal fossils in Europe and Asia, and although the only Denisovan DNA comes from a finger bone and a couple of teeth discovered in a Siberian cave, both species are well represented in the fossil record.
But now genetic modeling of the Melanesians has revealed a third, different human ancestor that may be an extinct, distinct cousin of the Neanderthals.
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WhiteTara
Oct 2017
OP
So does our president with regard to attitudes. We're not too proud of that either.
justhanginon
Oct 2017
#55
There is still much to discover and learn about the origins of man throughout
democratisphere
Oct 2017
#29
Actually, what he did was translate what the ancient Sumerian clay tablets had on them.
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#41
every time i read about something like this, i hear a familiar scifi tv show goes off in my head ,,
AllaN01Bear
Oct 2017
#56