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In a recent article appearing in Nature magazine entitled, “Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ sex lives,” researchers studying the human genome has concluded that the ancient Denisovans, Neaderthals and a unknown mystery species all interbred with our ancestors some 30,000 or more years ago.

An excavation in Denisova cave in Siberia, Russia, where remains of Denisovan hominins were first discovered.
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A mystery human species that was in existence over 30,00 years ago but has now gone the way of Neanderthal and the Denisovans. The researchers likened it to a Middle Earth scenario:

“What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a Lord of the Rings-type world — that there were many hominid populations,” says Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London who was at the meeting but was not involved in the work.

Everyone should note that these are respectable scientists from established organizations with peer-reviewed papers that are making these claims. Rather than sweeping it all under the rug (as sometimes alleged in conspiracy theories,) these results shatter some of the old theories and provide enormous room for future study, research and discovery.

It will be fun to see where this leads.
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Amazing new information indicates that the genes from the Denisova people are contained in human populations in southeast Asia, but not in the mainland Asian populations, which indicates that the Denisovans migrated long distances before they started interbreeding with humans.

From the cave in Siberia where the first remains were found, one might expect to find their genes in the people of Inner Asia, but their descendants are located essentially south of Borneo, south of the “Wallace Line” on the map below. This is the same general area where the ‘Hobbit’ people were discovered.

Neanderthal and humans also left evidence of their presence in the same cave, along with the DNA of another ancient unidentified hominid.

Not too many years ago, the theory was humans originated in Africa and populated the earth, eventually killing all the other hominids as they progressed (and all the mega-fauna.)
Now science tells us that non-Africans contain about 4% Neanderthal genes, and humans also have genes from other hominids. Instead of killing them, it appears we were fornicating with them and data has shown the climate (not humans) are the cause for the collapse of populations of mega-fauna.
Can it get more twisted? I certainly hope so.

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