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yagathai ([personal profile] yagathai) wrote2012-05-29 01:54 am

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I'm watching a fascinating documentary on Denisovan man. They found trace amounts of Denisovan DNA in certain isolated modern human populations, which is evidence of paleolithic interspecies breeding. I mean most non-African human populations have a good amount of Neanderthal DNA (that's right -- almost everyone reading this is not pure Homo sapiens, but a hybrid), but humans breeding with a third non-Homo sapiens population? That is some amazing shit right there.

[identity profile] xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. I've been trying to get a story going about this for awhile. Fascinating stuff. The interbreeding isn't even the gnarliest result of this research -- it will likely overturn the main theory of the history of human evolution and migration.
Edited 2012-05-29 10:36 (UTC)