Gene research reveals fourth human species

[LaL 418]

These homos were hunterers and gatherers.

clearly they were simply hunting out more fashionable nightclubs.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

clearly they were simply hunting out more fashionable nightclubs.

[Niels Bohr 72]

That was funny!

[Calypso 464]

Or, Siberia has been significantly warmer in the past than it is now....

Woolly mammoths must have been very attractive to people back then. Most of them had lived in the north of Siberia.

Humans were able to brave the Ice Age so it's not surprising if some of them decided to live in Siberia. It also reminds me of the discussion on History.com when archeologists were trying to identify the origin of projectile points they have found in New Mexico, Louisiana, and other parts of the U.S. Scientists thought that most of those projectile points were from Siberia although slightly modified. Another theory also suggested that some humans crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the U.S. therefore bringing with them the type of projectile points they have used in Western Europe.

The point is that people can survive living in Siberia, they always have.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Woolly mammoths must have been very attractive to people back then. Most of them had lived in the north of Siberia.

Humans were able to brave the Ice Age so it's not surprising if some of them decided to live in Siberia. It also reminds me of the discussion on History.com when archeologists were trying to identify the origin of projectile points they have found in New Mexico, Louisiana, and other parts of the U.S. Scientists thought that most of those projectile points were from Siberia although slightly modified. Another theory also suggested that some humans crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the U.S. therefore bringing with them the type of projectile points they have used in Western Europe.

The point is that people can survive living in Siberia, they always have.

I hear the property taxes are quite low.

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I hear the property taxes are quite low.

And no spear registration laws.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

And no spear registration laws.

Free concealed weapon's permits to the first 5,000 homosapians....neanderthals not welcome.

[Calypso 464]

I hear the property taxes are quite low.

I won't even wish to visit Siberia. Who knows what the air brings from the Gulag? It could be more chilling than the climate.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I won't even wish to visit Siberia. Who knows what the air brings from the Gulag? It could be more chilling than the climate.

Make sure you hold that spear tight in your hands. It's kinda big, so you may need to use both.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Make sure you hold that spear tight in your hands. It's kinda big, so you may need to use both.

Bad hobbit, bad.

[Niels Bohr 72]

In the Scientific American, archeologists discovered that Neanderthals has the capacity to understand art from an artifact that was buried with bones fragment from a Neantherdal. This means that they have cognitive abilities that are similar to ** sapiens. Why they became extinct is still unknown?

My hypothesis is that they built spaceships, and remove themselves from Earth.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

My hypothesis is that they built spaceships, and remove themselves from Earth.

Good. Now you get to spend a lifetime consuming grant money in a quest to prove or disprove that hypothesis. What fun!

[Calypso 464]

In the Scientific American, archeologists discovered that Neanderthals has the capacity to understand art from an artifact that was buried with bones fragment from a Neantherdal. This means that they have cognitive abilities that are similar to ** sapiens. Why they became extinct is still unknown?

My hypothesis is that they built spaceships, and remove themselves from Earth.

Are you a cult member or a cult leader?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Why was everyone trying to get out of Africa?

Was?

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

A fourth type of hominid, besides Neanderthals, modern humans and the tiny “hobbit”, was living as recently as 40,000 years ago, according to research published in the journal Nature.

The discovery by Svante Pääbo and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is based on DNA sequences from a finger bone fragment discovered in a Siberian cave.

It further enriches the scientific picture of human life in the recent geological past. “Forty thousand years ago the planet was more crowded than we thought,” said Terry Brown, an expert in ancient DNA at Manchester University.

Until recently scientists believed there were just two members of the genus ** alive at the time: Neanderthals whose ancestors left Africa 400,000 years ago, and modern humans, who left about 50,000 years ago. The picture changed in 2003 when archaeologists found remains of a third species, the tiny “hobbit”, which had survived on the Indonesian island of Flores until 14,000 years ago.

The identification of a fourth species is potentially more significant because it was not an isolated population but lived in the centre of the Eurasian continent, where Neanderthals and ** Sapiens were also present.

The Leipzig team extracted DNA from a child’s finger bone, which Russian archaeologists discovered with other hominid bone fragments in Denisova Cave, a well known Neanderthal site in Russia’s Altai Mountains.

The site’s exceptional cold helped preserve enough DNA to be read with the latest gene sequencing technology.

The scientists first decoded the “mitochondrial” DNA. It was human but, to their astonishment, very different from ** Sapiens and Neanderthals.

The differences imply that the ancestors of the still unnamed Siberian hominid diverged from the human family tree about 1m years ago, well before the split between Neanderthals and modern hominids about 500,000 years ago. The results also suggest a previously unsuspected migration out of Africa about 1m years ago, said Prof Pääbo.

He expects within months to decode the hominid’s “nuclear” DNA. That will be compared with the modern human and Neanderthal genomes.

Until more of the new hominid’s DNA has been analysed – or larger pieces of bone discovered – it will not be possible to say much about its physical or cultural characteristics, or how it interacted with other human species.

But one thing is clear: it must have clothed itself in thick furs to withstand the Siberian winter, said Prof Pääbo: “It would have been a bit colder 40,000 years ago than today, and it was -40°C when we went there this January.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8f3e63fe-3758-11df-9176-00144feabdc0.html

computers have recreated the creature. link